School: Star of the Sea, Glengivney (roll number 12334)
- Location:
- Glennagiveny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Brian Mac Giolla Easbuic
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- (continued from previous page)on which garlic and soot are applied. This is a very rare disease.
Cream is applied to hecked or feet to soothe them.
"Wee still" the local name for "potteen" was often given to sheep as a cure for the fluke or poke disease.
People in this district soothed their feet by washing them in moss water, or in salt water. Corns were cured in this manner.
In olden times people in Glenagivney knew more about cures from herbs and plants than they know presently. Even old men do not remember some of the cures they know to be known by their mothers and fathers.- Collector
- Kathleen Crumlish
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Dan Sweeney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Glennagiveny, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Neil Crumlish
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40