School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)

Location:
Drom, Co. Tipperary
Teachers:
Pilib Ó Ó Muireadhaigh Pádraig Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 284

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    on it until the morning.
    A cure for a sore lip was to get the root of a buachailleán and put it to it.
    Dandelion was also a cure for Asthma. This plant was either boiled or eaten raw. The water was taken off it and used.
    Marsh-mallows were also used for drawing matter out of a cut or a wound.
    A cure for kidney disease was to boil barley and drink the water off of it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. In ancient times when there were not any doctors the old people had their own cures for their diseases.
    The cure they had for bleeding of the nose was to get a horse mushroon and put it to the nose and it would stop.
    When they had sprains or breaks
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Troy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drom, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Tobias Troy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drom, Co. Tipperary