School: Clochar na Trócaire (roll number 13381)
- Location:
- Killarney, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An tSr. Aodán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0455, Page 225
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- Cranes bill for murrain in cattle
Chicken weed for sprains
Druclaíní (a kind if small snail) boiled with goat's milk was a cure for consumption.
The story teller knew if a Mr OConnor, Kenmare who returned from America as an apparently incurable consumptive. He sued this cure and it proved so successful that he lived for 49 years.
Plaster -
first quality flour.
white resin,
yolk of egg.
unrecked whiskey
fresh lard
Boil to gether and put into box to harden
Such a plaster has been found to cure a running sore in the leg.
Meacac tobhach. Boil the root with poppies and camomile and apply to a sore throat.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Cronin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Edward Forde
- Gender
- Male
