School: Cill Díoma (C.) (roll number 6517)
- Location:
- Cill Díoma, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Eilís Ní Chathail
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- (continued from previous page)bleeding. Another cure for bleeding on a sore is to rub a rib - wort to the sore, and it would cure it. When people got a burn they rubbed soda, or a dock leaf to the burn and it would get cured.Long ago the people used put a frog into their mouth and they siad it would cure a tootache.
- There is an herb growing called Marsh Mallow and it is said to have been a cure for bone disease. There is a herb growing called "Yarra" and it would cure Rehumatism. It should be boiled in milk for an hour an then the person who had the disease should drink the milk of it. If Ivy leaves were boiled in bog water and some sugar mixed with it afterwards, the mixture is a cure for sore eyes.
There is a white skin growing inside the root of a dock leaf and if you put it on a persons lip which would be sore it would cure it in a day. - Collector
- Bridget O' Shea
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile Mhoirín, Co. Luimnigh
- Informant
- Johnny Hayes
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Baile Mhoirín, Co. Luimnigh
