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 288
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- A cure for asthma was heather. The heather was boiled and then it was strained and the water was drank. After two or three times drinking the water the person was cured.
The cure for pimples was to get the leaves of a dandelion and eat them.
Garlic was a cured for bad blood. The leaves of it were eaten. t was also a cure for blackleg in cattle.
Groichac was a cure for a cough. They used to boil it and drink the water.
Marsh mallows was a cure for swollen joints. The people made a poultice and put it to the joints.
If a person had warts he got a plant by the name of "caulic" and rubbed the juice of it on the warts.
A cure for a sting of a nettle was to get a dock-leave and put it to the sting.
A wild-flower by the name od "Comfrey" was a cure for "kidney disease. The flower was boiled and the person drank the water.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Una Costello
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilvilcorris, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Jermiah Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathleasty, Co. Tipperary
