School: Guaire (Goorey) (roll number 7929)
- Location:
- Goorey, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Úna M. Montgomery
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- Bog bean is used for cleaning the blood and broom bushes is also used. Briar roots are dug and boiled and used as a cure for sore feet. Holy wells are visited as cures for toothace and other ailments. If you keep a goat on your farm you will never take ringworm. Ground ivy is a cure for a cold.
Garlic is a cure for disease in fowls and also a cure for "sliptail" in cows. Seeds of garlic and soot and butter are all broken up together and put on a cloth. The cows tail is cut with a knife and the poultice is put on the cut.- Collector
- Robert Platt
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Malin Head, Co. Donegal