School: Béal Átha Fhinghín (B.)
- Location:
- Ballineen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Beircheart Seártan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0311, Page 087
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- Example of how the use of herbs was discovered At Lisiláin (somewhere near Clonakilty) a rich family lived long ago. There was a son who was in college to be a minister. He died of some inwardly disease which baffled the doctors. They held a post mortem and they found a long bone- like growth in his liver, which they removed. The mother was very fond of this son and the notion struck her to have the "growth" fixed as a handle on a fork.
It happened sometime afterwards that there was a big dinner in the house. They had a lot of varieties of vegetables on the table. The handle(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Bridget Brien
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- Over 80
- Address
- Carrig, Co. Cork
