School: Lurga, Patrick's Well (roll number 10317)
- Location:
- Kilcolman, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Bhroin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0527, Page 048
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- (continued from previous page)Cammile shampoo, you would get the leaves and boil them in water. They would then be drawn like tea and a little soap added. This shampoo is particularly used by ladies with fair hair. Camomile shampoo can also be bought at the chemists.Mrs. Sheehan, Kilcoleman.
- The Onion is a cultivated plant. An Onion peeled down to the shape of a person's ear is supposed to be a cure for earache.
- Horehound is a small plant found in waste ground. The whole plant is aromatic and bitter. When mixed with Rue it is a cure for Evils whie are running sores. O'Byrne Lourriga Can give examples of this cure.
- Informant
- D. Byrne
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Lurraga, Co. Limerick
- Groundsel is a small garden weed with a yellow blossom. When boiled with mutton suet in milk it is used to draw corruption from a boil or sore. You would apply it as a poultice.
- Beastings is the first milk a cow has after calving. People say that it is a cure for Backache.
- Informant
- Mc Grath
- Address
- Ballycarney, Co. Limerick
