School: Cill Barúin (roll number 10595)
- Location:
- Kilbarron, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Séan C. Ó Ciaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1027, Page 093
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- Cure for festering: boil linseed with orange lily roots and poultice the cut.
A cure for sore throat was to boil sugar and butter-milk together and rink it.
- Collector
- Betty Patton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sheegys, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Thomas Patton
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Sheegys, Co. Donegal
Local Cures
“Rose foot is cured by poulticing it with cow clabar (manure).”
Rose foot is cured by poulticing it with cow clabar (manure). This cure is still practiced.
The informant is Miss Bigger
