School: Cluain (C.) (roll number 15443)
- Location:
- Cloone, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bean Uí Sholamháin
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- (continued from previous page)gardens. The stems and leaves are boiled
in a saucepan of water until the water has
boiled to half. This is bottled when cold and
used fasting for nine mornings.
Cure for the Liver
Gather a handful of Dandelion leaves
and eat fasting for nine mornings. The
leaves of the Stanlus a herb which grows
in sandy soil is also recommended for
the Liver especially in Spring.
Cure for Warts
One of the many cures I heard for
warts is, get a potatoe split it in two halves
and rub it to the wart in the name of the
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Thus continuing
for nine mornings doing the same each
morning. It is said the wart will disapp-
-ear then.
- Collector
- Kathleen Keegan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Curraun, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Brigid Keegan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Curraun, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- John Keegan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Curraun, Co. Leitrim
