School: Gortnasilla (roll number 15133)
- Location:
- Gortnasillagh East, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Thomas Mc Loughlin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0205, Page 080
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- (continued from previous page)7. Whooping-cough.
A cure for whooping cough is made by putting the person out between a young foals legs.Dandelion.
The juice of the Dandelion cures stomach troubles and purifies the blood.
Cancer.
There is a man named B Carke in the parish of Killargue. He makes a poultice of herbs and puts it on the cancer but the cancer must be on outside of the body.
Rheumatism.
The juice of chickenweed is able to cure Rheumatism and the bark of the ash tree is a cure also.
The Sprain.
A woman or girl who makes the
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- Collector
- Pakie Mc Weeney
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Feeney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Lisgavneen, Co. Leitrim
