School: Seamar
- Location:
- Shammerdoo, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Loideáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0114, Page 15
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- In former times when doctors and hospitals were not so plentiful people of this district made cures for their ailments from herbs and other things. These cures have been handed down for generations and some of them are practised in this place up to the present day.
There is a plant like a little tree growing in this village and it is called Glas a Coille. The leaves of this plant boiled with unsalted butter make a wonderful ointment for rashes and sores of all kinds. This ointment is swallowed sometimes to cure internal sores.
Criubin a sconnay is a plant something like heather. When boiled the juice is used by people suffering from stomach trouble.
The sting of a nettle is cured by the juice of a dock leaf.
Donkey's milk is supposed to be a certain cure for whooping cough. There is a superstition here also that if you meet a man riding a white horse and ask(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Lynskey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barnacahoge, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Lynskey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barnacahoge, Co. Mayo
