School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)
- Location:
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Thos. Mc Gettrick
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- The juice of leek is very good as a cure for sore eyes.
If we burned the leaf of the docking on a coal and take the vein out of it and tease it through our hands and leave it up to the burn, it is a very good cure.
The greater part of those herbs are boiled on milk or water. Chicken-weed is a harmful weed, though it is a cure for a wart.
- The most harmful of weed that grow on the farm are the "Reeds". This is a very harmful weed. They should never be pulled out of where they are growing. If you take the weed up in your hand it would put warts or blisters on(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Christina O Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockadalteen, Co. Sligo
