School: Druim Snámha (roll number 14057)
- Location:
- Drumsna, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Haodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0213, Page 017
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- Blue-stone is a great cure for a toothache. If you put a little stone of blue-stone in your tooth, i twill cure the tooth ache in about an hour. There is a flower called the Yarrow which is a cure for a headache and wounds and ointment made from it is supposed to cure coughs and colds.
If blue is rubbed on a sting of a wasp it will cure it in very little time.
If a person has warts and is going through the fields and gets a snail and rubs it on them and then hangs it up on a bush. While the snail is withering the warts are withering.
A dock-leaf is a good cure for a sting of a nettle if it is rubbed on it immediately after getting it.
- Collector
- Ellie J. Feeney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Liscallyroan, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Kathleen Feeney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Liscallyroan, Co. Leitrim
