School: Cora Finne (C.) (roll number 12908)
- Location:
- Corrofin, Co. Clare
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 199
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- (continued from previous page)to buy it. If there was a few houses together one family would kill a pig and supply the neighbours with steak as far as it would go. Then another family would buy another pig and kill it and supply the others.
- When the milk used be scarce they used make Barm. They used to get grated potatoes and a small drop of thick milk and they would put the potatoes into it and leave it by the fire for a few hours.
- Collector
- Delia Broderick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cregmoher, Co. Clare
- Informant
- John Broderick
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cregmoher, Co. Clare
- GarlicGarlic is a great herb for a chest cold. First you cut up the Garlic and steep it in whiskey and then you drink the juice of it. The seed is put down any place atall and it seatters around and the Garlic grows very quickly
- Comfrey is a herb for running sores. The people used to chop it up and put it into sores.
