School: An Corrbhaile
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máirtín Mac Coitir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0627, Page 384
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- The olden cures were. Water Cress for Cold. Wash and clean the water Cress and put it to boil with a quantity of water. When boiled the Water Cress is trown away and a quantity of sweet Stick and Licurous Ball and Brown Sugar is put into the water and to a slow boil for a few hours It is then put away in a jar. Cure for Whoopen Cough in children. Get a half pint of milk and put it in a bowl for a Ferret to drink and the quantity left after the Ferret will cure the Whoopen CoughCure for Rheumatism. A bunch of Green Heather boiled in a quart of water. When it is boiled and strained. Put a pound of Treacle two or three of magnesia and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Haugh
- Gender
- Female
