School: Geevagh (roll number 1213)
- Location:
- Geevagh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0181, Page 164
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- There is an herb called the cuckoo sorrel. It is a long thin leaf that grows around rushes. When the juice is bruised out of it and rubbed on the Whitlow it will cure it.
- Collector
- Paddy Joe Conlon
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Mac Donagh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cabragh, Co. Sligo
- To cure a wound or cut an herb is got which is called St Patrick's leaf. It grows in the fields but it is more common in a place where the grass is scarce or on trampled ground.It is put on the wound for two days. If it is not healed it is taken off and a new one put on.
