School: Rathregan (roll number 9846)
- Location:
- Rathregan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Uigín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0687, Page 307
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- (continued from previous page)Curesfrom herbs and unsalted butter and it is used for swelling. Goose-greese is another good thing for swellings.
Crane oil is a good thing for pains You kill the crane and bury it in a manure heap with his beak in a bottle to catch the oil. Cure of the burst is salt and the white of an egg and horse manure. You make poulties out of it.
Sheila Ennis 1st April 1938
- CuresI have heard these cures from my grandmother. To put a black cobweb on a cut will stop it from bleeding. To let a snail creep over a cut or a dog lick it would cure it . There is a weed called" Quickgrate " which was balled and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maeve Collins
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Hulsman
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
