School: Tullogher, Ros Mhic Treoin (roll number 14648)
- Location:
- Tulachar, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Mrs Winnie Murphy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0846, Page 420
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- I have heard it said that those old herb-cures were got in Monasteries which the English Government confiscated during the Penal days: they kept the valuable books written by the monks: this is given as the reason that may Protestants have those ancient cures. Bowers (lately deceased) an herb-doctor who lived in a place called Silverspring near Mullinavat, Co. Kilkenny was a Protestant gentleman, highly educated. He cured many a person around this district after the doctors failed. It was herbs he used in all his cures and medicine, and possessed old books containing these herb-cures: and these books were kept in families. Bower's sister has those books still. Bowers did beautiful handwriting in his prescriptions I have heard.
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“There is a great herb-doctor in Belfast at the present time;”
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