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School: Kilmacteige (B.) (roll number 15500)

Location:
Kilmacteige, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Cuirnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0173, Page 220

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    daily for a year an egg layed by a black hen

    Deer's horn (a weed) draws water from the bones

    Caislín Cloch (a weed) is good for a burn

    Crubh Phadhraig (a weed) draws sores

    Ferret's leavings (milk he leaves after drinking enough) is good for whooping cough

    Shoe-makers wax is good for a sore heel

    Cow's manure is good for a burn
    Takes all the pain out of it. It is also good for boils on the neck to make a poultice of cow's manure

    (Collected from M. Cunney Culdalee, Aclare
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    P. Walsh
    Informant
    M. Cunney
    Age
    60
    Address
    Culdaly, Co. Sligo