School: Lios an Uisce (roll number 14356)

Location:
Lissanisky, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Hánnrachtaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0263, Page 066

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0263, Page 066

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  1. Coughs:- Boil the tops of heather in water procured from a bog hole. The drinking of the boiled juice was supposed to cure Coughs.
    Teethaches:- If a tooth procured when digging a grave was rubbed to one's teeth it was supposed preventative of teethaches for ever after.
    Chin Cough. To meet a man with a white horse and to ask him for a cure for the chin cough. The use of what ever medicine he prescribed was a supposed cure for this ailment.
    Warts. To find a stone with a hollow in which the water rests. To bathe the warts in the water in the name of the 3 Divine persons cured warts.
    Burns. Cured by applying the leaves which remain in the tea pot after drawing the tea.
    Ivy leaves and lard also a cure
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English