School: Cnoc Bhruis (Mount Bruis) (roll number 15158)
- Location:
- Bruis, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: M. Ní Chuinneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0580, Page 155
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- In the townland of Toor three miles from Tipperary town herbs were very much used. The "slanless" washed and cut up cured cuts. The juice of a dockleaf was put to peeling lips; a dockleaf also cured nettle rash. The root of the dandelion steeped in sour milk cured warts, the of the stem of dandelion was a cure for teeth aches. The laurel leaf was boiled in lard and reduced to pulp, the mixture was applied to urns to cure them. Robin-run-the-hedge was boiled and drank as a cure for chest trouble.
- Certain herbs cured diseases in cattle. We heard of ivy as a successful cure for fluke in cattle or sheep; it was prepared by cutting the ivy leaves into bits and mixing it in their food. Another cure was woodbine(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Johanna Bailey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Toor, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Bailey
- Gender
- Female
