School: Rooskey (roll number 4800)
- Location:
- Rúscaigh, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Luke Caslin
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My granny Mrs Jane Clabby Rooskey, Parish of Killglass, Co. Roscomon, told me the following about Herbs.She said rushes are a sign of bad, wet land and thistles are a sign of good, dry land. In the fields the clover grows has good grass?The danelion is good for the stomach. A cure for a cut is to put rip-grass on the cut and it would stop bleeding. Garlic is a cure for the chin-cough. If you put a few heads of garlic in a pot of water and put a pint of turpentine and a pound of lard in also, and boil it, when it is boiled rub the mixture on the joints of the child the chin-cough will go.Thomas Caslin, Rookskey,
Co. Roscommon.
30th March '38
- Collector
- Thomas Caslin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rúscaigh, Co. Ros Comáin
- Informant
- Mrs Jane Clabby
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rúscaigh, Co. Ros Comáin
