School: An Gleann Garbh (roll number 2379)
- Location:
- Glengarriff, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Caoimhín Ó Séaghdha
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- (continued from previous page)a herb called sage. They would get the leaves of it and put it into water and drink it every morning
They ate earth from under a white thorn tree as a emetic
A cure they had to stop swelling was to tie a red string around it
- Long ago there was a woman in this place and she was very bad with lumps in her throat. The doctor had no(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Sheaghdha
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigrour, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Diarmuid Ó Coingheallaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigrour, Co. Cork
