School: Carrigeencor (roll number 10826)
- Location:
- Carrigeencor, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mrs Annie Gillmor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0200, Page 073
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- (continued from previous page)For a Cough.
Water cress pounded and mixed with liquorous ball and a little whiskey to preserve it.
For Consumption.
Roots of dandelion boiled, and strained, and drunk is good for consumptives.For a choking in chest boil mountain sage and take like tea.Jaundice.
Tamarack, bitter apple, 1/4 oz jallop hair of pike, mixed in 1/2 pt of water. Take 1/2 glass night and morning. Cause vomiting - yellow stuff[?] center like a marble.
For burns and Cuts.
Wild hyacinth, slánlus[ribwort?], Primrose roots, daisy house leek - Leaves and roots of foregoing washed and pounded and boiled and strained and then mixed with lard.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Leith
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonaquin, Co. Leitrim
