School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)
- Location:
- Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 111
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- Mackin a Kompany. Pull its thick root and scrape it and boil it. Then put it on a tag and put it on as a poultice.
- Bog oil is a great cure for burns. This bog oil is to be seen floating like parrafin oil or petrol on top of the water in a bog.
- Once there used to be no candles like nowadays. The sort of candles they had was a bit of calico made like a garter, and dipped in grease.
- This was a metal vessel with a handle like that of a metal pan. It had three legs or little feet about two of three inches from the ground. Itself was about eight or ten inches long with(continues on next page)
