School: Traceystown (roll number 12156)
- Location:
- Baile Uí Threasaigh Thiar, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Proínséas Bean Uí Phearáil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 129
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- (continued from previous page)and as the potato rots away, so will the warts disappear.Burns :-
The juice of a weed called Houseleek found growing on old walls is a good cure for burns.Blackleg in Cattle :-
A short time ago the bone of a cow's leg was found hanging in the Chimney of an old house. It seems this bone had been hanging there for years and was kept by the old people of the house as a preventive for Blackleg in Cattle.Fluke :-
The common bracken or fern which grows by the road-side contain's a juice, which when extracted cures 'fluke' in sheep or cattle.A cure for a Sty :-
A sty on the eye may be cured by pricking it three times with a gooseberry thorn, and then burying the thorn.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Sliabh Bhuí, Co. Loch Garman
- Informant
- Mrs O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Sliabh Bhuí, Co. Loch Garman
