School: Cill Dá Lua (B.)
- Location:
- Killaloe, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Loingsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0587, Page 043
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- (continued from previous page)asthma
A juice extracted from the leaves of the horse chestnut mixed with honed and used to give relief.
Bad Cough
A pig's head fresh was boiled with three or four onions and a dozen stems of dandelion.
Consumption
The roe of perch were boiled in water for several hours with water cress. A thick form of soup which resulted was used by the patient.
Rheumatism
Ivy leaves were boiled in a thin form of oatmeal porridge. Poteen was added and the mixture rubbed to the sore part. An herb (name unknown), was sometimes added.
Swelling
Near Killaloe on the shores of the Shannon is found a thick form of mud known as doebe (?) some of this mud was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Cecelia Connellan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 81
- Address
- Killaloe, Co. Clare
