School: Sráid na Cathrach (B.) (roll number 8850)
- Location:
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0622, Page 282
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“There is a herb growing on the side of walls...”
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- There is a plant that grows in a waste corner of the garden. The name of this plant is "Loumpry". It was used very much by bonesetters in days gone by. When a bone was fractured they plucked this plant and boiled it into a jelly.
They applied this jelly to the fracture just as Plaster of Paris is applied to day. It would harden like plaster of Paris and it was far better because it was cheaper and because it had healing properties as well.
When a person got a cold some years ago, it was the usual practice to cut up a few onions and to mix brown sugar with them and to eat them fasting. - Collector
- P. Malone
- Informant
- J. J. Shannon
- Age
- 36
- Address
- Kilfarboy, Co. Clare
