School: Lough Gur, Kilmallock (roll number 7117)
- Location:
- Loughgur, Co. Limerick
- Teachers: T. Collins P. Ó Seaghdha
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- Near the Black Castle which is situated on the bank's of Loughgur lake and which is now in ruins there once grew a herb. Many people did not know it was there because it was very scarce. The make of it was like a dog leaf but it flowered in the Summertime.
Now this herb was used for the curing of rumatism and only few people here knew where it grew. When a person came to one of these people for to get the cure, he would not be, left go looking for the herb becaus it was kept private. Then when he had got the herb he would return home and prepare it. He would place it to his leg like a mustard leaf and in a few weeks the pain would be gone.
- Collector
- John O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynagallagh, Co. Limerick
