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School: Aclint, Ardee (roll number 2138)

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Aclint, Co. Louth
Teacher:
P. Ó Neill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0667, Page 332

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    Cures
    In this district Edmondstown,Ardee there are old people who have the cure of different complaints. I know an old woman that plenty of people used to go with a sore called the whitlow. She would go out to the garden and pull herbs and boil them, and then poultice the finger with the juice of the herbs and in this way she would cure the people that went to her. My father had a sore on his foot called the Rose and he went to a man of the name Michael Roy and he told him to pull chicken weed in the garden and boil it in a pot and to poultice the sore with it and in this way it got better.
    Told by Edward Sharkey Edmondstown on 20th Jan 1938
    Written by Bridie Sharkey
    Edmondstown
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridie Sharkey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Edmondstown, Co. Louth
    Informant
    Edward Sharkey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Edmondstown, Co. Louth