School: Páirc na nDriseóg (roll number 14294)
- Location:
- Brierfield, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Conaire
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- (continued from previous page)Mary Nicholson.
Dangan, Derreen Post Office
Ballyglunin, Co. GalwayGot from my father - Mr Michael Nicholson. - CuresMeach na Caoirigh is a cure for coughs and colds. It grows in the field. It has a flower and boil the roots of it with liquorice and sugar. It would do without liquorice or sugar but it would be hard to drink it.Luibh na Saora is a cure for cuts. It grows in the garden. Take a leaf from it and heat it. Clap it between your hands until it is soft, then put it on the cut and put a cloth over it.If you had a sore mouth(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cooloorta, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Margaret Fahy
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75