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School: Urbal (roll number 13874)

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Urbal, Co. Leitrim
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Gerald Kelliher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0206, Page 478

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  1. Medicinal Herbs and Cures (continued)

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    A Cure for Boils:
    Apply a poultice of sugar and soap. This poultice will be found to be very effective.
    The seventh son was regarded as having the cure of the ring-worm. If you took a worm out of the earth, and put it in the seventh son's fist it would die immediately.
    Mondays and Thursdays are regarded as the lucky days for beginning a new undertaking.
    Good Friday is considered a lucky day. People like to plant potatoes on that day. Garlic, planted on the 25th March, and uprooted after the 15th August, is regarded as the best garlic for medicinal purposes.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Gearóid Ó Céileachair
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Múinteoir
    Informant
    Francis Early
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    75
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Eden, Co. Leitrim