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School: Landsdowne (Cuar na gCoileach) (roll number 6091)

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Coornagillagh, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Eibhlín, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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  1. Cure for Cough

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    Maiden hair, cranes-bill, ragweed brook-lime, shamrock, marsh mallow and dandelion and rib-leaf
    Equal quantities of stalks. Boil in water for an hour and strain.
    When liquid add brandy to flavour.

    Given to me by Mrs S. O'Sullivan Derrinid, Kenmare, and given to her sixty or seventy years ago by her father O. Murphy long since dead
    go ndeanfadh Dia trócaire dá anam.

    * * *

    "An ceann do cheann an tíghe
    An clíathán clé dá mhnaoí
    An clíathán deas don ingean
    Agus an corp mor iomlán dom féin"
    Briseadh an cleamhnas ar an bhfód ní nár bi iongnadh
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    2. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. cough (~30)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
    Gender
    Female
    Occupation
    Múinteoir