School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0993, Page 125
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- (continued from previous page)to the sting at it will cure it.
- Cure for angle-berries in Cattle. No 61.
Get a horse-hair and tie it on the angle-berries and it will take them off. - Cure for Red Water in Cattle No. 62
Bottle two pounds of treacle and a half-pound of salts to the animal. Boil a quantity of wild strawberry plant in water, give a bottle full of the liquid obtained to the animal half an hour after the other dose. Keep the animal warm. - To cure ulcerated stomach No.63
Let the person eat no meat nor vegetables but live on sour buttermilk and indian meal stirabout. - Transcription guide » You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Wilfred Lowry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Graddum, Co. Cavan
