School: An Clochar, Cill Ruis
- Location:
- Kilrush, Co. Clare
- Teacher: An tSr. Pól
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- (continued from previous page)in hot water and she gave it to him to drink. She threw the dandelion leaves out in the yard and a delicate turkey who was there ate them. Some months after this they killed the turkey and there was a new skin round her heart as the result of eating the dandelion.A spider's web (cobweb) was used for a cut on a person's hand. When the web was put up to the hand, the blood immediately stopped flowing. Garlic put into the soles of shoes was a cure for rheumatism. When a person had a sty in his eye, a woman's ring turned three times round it, would cure it
- To cure ringworm mixed herbs are boiled and afterwards rubbed on to the ringworm. A sty is cured by rubbing a gold ring or 3 gooseberry thorns to the eye. As a cure for whooping-cough milk should be given to a ferret and what he leaves should be given to the patient. An ivy leaf which has been heated at the fire is the cure for(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilrush, Co. Clare
