School: Brideswell (roll number 15413)
- Location:
- Brideswell, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0268, Page 231
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- The primrose boiled with new milk is a cure for yellow jaunders. The old people used to say that their parents used primrose and new milk boiled as a cure for yellow jaunders.
The Hemlock is a plant that grows on ditches. It is poison to man or beast. There were four cows poisoned on a man in Brideswell a long time ago. He gave it to the cows in a bundle of hay and he did not know it was in it.
