School: Killuran / Cill Úráin (roll number 14658)
- Location:
- Cill Iúráin, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Thomas Mc Inerney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0588C, Page 15_023
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- The people had no doctors long ago. They cured their diseases themselves. They made cures from herbs and leaves. For a burn they looked for a leaf called "hound's tongue". They put one side of it to the sore for a week. They then put the other side of it. Before long the burn was better. Sometimes they had warts on their hands and feet. They washed these warts in water in a stone. They also rubbed the juice of a weed like the dandelion to them. If any of them had a toothache(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Mc Namara
- Gender
- Female
