School: Cill Bhonáin, Droichead na Bandan (roll number 1271)
- Location:
- Kilbonane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0346, Page 081
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- Boils can be cured by licking a lizard and letting him eat the boils and suck them until he burst.
Boiled primroses and fresh butter are for sores. They are made into ointment before they are used.
Penny leaves and butter are for curing heart troubles and sores.
Wild sage is boiled and put in a poultice to sore throats.
Wild sage is smoked to cure asthma.
The roots of the dandelion are for curing stomach trouble. The milk of the stem of the dandelion is drank to cure consumption. It is rubbed to worts to cure them.
Children who suffered from diptheria were cured by sticking them in head and all to boiling water.
The children were cured sometimes.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Creed
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aherla More, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Cornelius O Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aherla More, Co. Cork
