School: Barrlinn
- Location:
- Inchinarihen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire Ní Chruadhlaoich
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It takes 8 hours to make, and is a certain cure for ringworm. It also cures burns and skin diseases
Get
1. a quart basin-full of camomile daisies (roots attached - and washed).
2. A quart basin of penny leaves (they are round about size of a penny and grow on walls).
3. 1/2 pint of wild woodbine cut in lengths of 1/4 inch
Boil all these ingredients together slowly and then strain through linen. Add 2 lbs of Stockholm tar, 1 lb of honey and 2 1/2 lbs of fat of a sheep (melted).
Boil again very slowly (if it burns it becomes useless.). The liquid will then be as thin as ink. When cool it becomes a solid mass.
- Collector
- Mary A. Crowley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrynafinchin, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Thade Harrington
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockanecosduff, Co. Cork
