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School: Killoughter

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Killoughter, Co. Wicklow
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Máire Ní Bhreitheamhan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0927, Page 054

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    Local Cures
    Marchmalet, a wide leafed plant wtih a blue flower grows wild around the ditches. It was used in olden days as well as at present for curing sprains or swelled joints. The leaft is plucked form the plant and boiled. Then it is strained and put in a bottle or jar. A sprain or swollen joint is bathed three or four times a day. A fairly tall weed called Wortweed generally found in turnip drills between June and September produces a kind of milk when plucked and broken which will cure any kind of a
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Crean
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cronykeery, Co. Wicklow
    Informant
    James Crean
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    43
    Address
    Cronykeery, Co. Wicklow