School: Cúil Mhaoile (Scoil N. Feichín)
- Location:
- Collooney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eachmharcaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0178, Page 121
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- (continued from previous page)information from my father Thomas Erwin, Bella, Collooney, aged forty-nine years. He said he heard it from his uncle Patrick Erwin, Achonty, Ballymore, who died in 1936, aged seventy-two years.
- There is an herb called "Fox's tongue" because it is shaped like a fox's tongue. When it is put on a cut it cures it.If the father's name is Walsh and the mothers name is Walsh their children will have the cure of the rose.The cure for a hiccough is to give the person who is affected a fright . This is another cure. Give a drink of baking soda and water to the sufferer.The cure for worms is to eat salt.The cure for an earache is put olive oil on a piece of cotton wool and put it in the ear.For jaundice boil the bark of a tree and give it to the sick person to drink with ale.
- Collector
- Phyllis Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kinnagrelly, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Terence Burke
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Kinnagrelly, Co. Sligo
