School: Colehill (C.), Mullingar (roll number 14673)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Kathleen Morris
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 294
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- (continued from previous page)The roots of comfrey if boiled and chopped fine and used as a poultice is a cure for swollen or painful joints. The stone crop that grows on the top of the walls if chopped fine and mixed through bread or vegetables and given to young dogs suffering from worms is a cure. Coltsfoot is a composite plant with a yellow flower. It grows in moist clayey soil. The leaves when dried and smoked like tobacco will cure asthma. Garlic is a cultivated herb. If sowed on a Good Friday it has a cure for many diseases. Consumption is one of the diseases Garlic will cure. To drink goats milk and Garlic and sleep over horses is known to have cured the most hopeless cases. Hemlock is a poisonous herb.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary J. Mc Guire
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 13
- Address
- Lisnacreevy, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Guire
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisnacreevy, Co. Longford
