School: Ráth Mhór (B.) (roll number 16987)
- Location:
- Rathmore, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Cróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0451, Page 048
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- (continued from previous page)together. Put this plaster up against a boil and it will cure it.
The cure for yellow jaundice is Mac an dhá aba. It is found between two rivers or big streams when they meet.
Asthma is cured by boiling the roots of the primrose and drinking the juice.
If a man licked a lizard he would have a cure for a burn in his tongue for ten years after.
If sheep's droppings and hot milk be boiled and strained and the milk drank, it would cure the whooping cough.
Pick a lot of Dandelions and squeeze the juices out of them and drink it was a good cure for a weak heart.
- Collector
- Noel Ó Coileáin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Concabhar Ó h-Ichéadha
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathmore, Co. Kerry
