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School: Kilmore (roll number 16126)

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Kilmore, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Shamhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0226, Page 481

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  1. Local Cures - Burns

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    Local Cures
    Burns: Polly Poidin (as specimen) and unsalted as butter boiled together and applied to burned hand.
    Patrick Maguire(55)
    Carrickmakeegan
    Ballinamore
    Co. Leitrim
    Cane oil made by boiling a cane (plucked but not cleaned) in bule water. The oil deposit left is used for burns, also for greasing a gun.
    Patrick Baxter
    Kilmore
    Ballinamore
    Roach lime and linseed oil beaten together is used for a burn.
    (James O'Rourke)
    (John Keleher)
    Carrickmakeegan
    Ballinamore
    House leek- Juice squeezed on stye on the eye said to cure it. (J. O'Rourke) Drumcoula. Boiling spit, made by wetting turf ash with spittle (before any food is taken) cures stye, also cures wildfire.
    J. O'Rourke 86
    Drumcoula
    Ballinamore
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit

  2. Local Cures - Burns

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    Cane oil made by boiling a cane (plucked but not cleaned) in bule water. The oil deposit left is used for burns, also for greasing a gun.
    Patrick Baxter
    Kilmore
    Ballinamore
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit

  4. Local Cures - Burns

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    House leek- Juice squeezed on stye on the eye said to cure it. (J. O'Rourke) Drumcoula. Boiling spit, made by wetting turf ash with spittle (before any food is taken) cures stye, also cures wildfire.
    J. O'Rourke 86
    Drumcoula
    Ballinamore
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. burns (~116)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    J. O' Rourke
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    86
    Address
    Drumcoura, Co. Leitrim