School: Tarmon (roll number 13997)
- Location:
- Tarmon, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: P. Layden
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0205, Page 240
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- Long ago the people had a great many cures. These are some of them.
1. If a person had boils they would roast sorrels and leave them on them and they would be cured.
2. If a person had a sty on their eye they would point a gooseberry thorn at it seven times and then throw it across their shoulder.
3. Another cure is if you had a mole in your eye and put your eye over an egg-stand and say prayers it would come out
4. If you had a cut in your finger and pluck the weed called cut-finger and leave it on it it would cure it.
5. Nettle juice is a cure for rheumatic.
6. If you get a sting of a nettle and rub a docken to it, it will cure it.
- Informant
- Mrs Guihen
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Tawnycorragh, Co. Leitrim
