School: Killygordon (roll number 11585)
- Location:
- Killygordon, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. Eibhlín Ní Loinsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1099, Page 298
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- In olden times people didd not believe in running for doctor as we do now. But the old people could prescribe a cure for almost every disease you could name.
My mother told me there is a man called Willie Lafferty in Castlefin who can cure Erysipelas which is better known by The Rose
Some give a certain quantity of oat meal and butter. Others give a herb that grows in the field just like a weed. This herb is not ready for use until it is boiled, and the substance that comes out of it is rubbed on the face a certain number of times.
- Collector
- Maud Guthrie
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killygordon, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Guthrie
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Killygordon, Co. Donegal
