School: Doire an Céise (C )
- Location:
- Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Uaid
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- Long ago the people could not afford to get a doctor if they were ill, and they used herbs to cure their diseases.
The green scum which grows on a bog-hole is a cure for a severe head-ache. The cure for a stye was to get a branch of a gooseberry bush with nine thorns on it, rub it to your eye for nine mornings, and throw a thorn away each morning. At the end of this time the stye will be better.
A poultice of chicken - weed is a cure for a sprain.
- 2. To cure a wart rub a sliced potato to it and then bury the potato deep down in the ground, when the potato rots the warts will go away.
The seventh girl of a family has the(continues on next page) - Collector
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