School: Baile Glas (Meastha), An Bhlárna (roll number 10930)
- Location:
- Ballyglass, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Uí Bhuachalla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0388, Page 010
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- Long ago the old people used many herbs to cure sickness. Rib. leaf a common plant which grows in ditches was used for cuts, and a common cough was cured by the juice from a mixture of sugar, onions, and a raw turnip grated. The old people believed that where children had whooping cough if one asked a man riding a white horse what he would say would cure it.
- Collector
- Denis O' Shea
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John O' Shea
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Pluckanes North, Co. Cork
