School: Urbal (roll number 13874)
- Location:
- Urbal, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Gerald Kelliher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0206, Page 476
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- Medicinal Herbs and Cures:
Slán-lur: If a person is stung by ants and leaves a leaf of the slan-lur on any part of the body the sting is felt no more. If slan-lur be apllied to a cut it has very effective healing powers.
Chicken weed:
Apply warm chicken weed to banish a swelling.
Bundock: Boil it and drink the juice as a tonic for the liver.
Broom: Boil it as a remedy for removing water from the system.
Bogbean: Boil it in water, All of the broom to half gallon of waer as a cure for Kidney or Liver Troubles.
Stone moss: Boil two or three ounces in new milk and drink as a cure for gravel.
For a pain in the back: Boil together a naggin of cow's 'stuppings' and garlic. Apply the compound. when cool, to the small of the back.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gearóid Ó Céileachair
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Francis Early
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Eden, Co. Leitrim
