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School: Scairt (C.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4127)

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Scart, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Mrs R. Eager
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0375, Page 357

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  1. Local Cures (continued)

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    They gathered dandelions and boiled them and strained the liquid into a bottle. Some of this was drunk every morning to give strength.
    The marrow of a bone was used to cure a boil. An old fashioned cure for a boil, is to take one or two drops of spirits of turpentine upon a lump of sugar every morning before breakfast for ten days. Then at intervals of four mornings a month, for about a month.
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  2. Local Herbs

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    On some farms a certain weed is harmful and on other farms it is quite a different weed does the damage just according to kind of the soil. A "bucallan" is not harmful on some farms, but on others it is quite the opposite.
    A dock-leaf is harmful
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Seán Ó hAinín
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    13
    Informant
    Mr D. Durane
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    78