School: Drumkeelanmore (roll number 12525)
- Location:
- Drumkeelan More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mary Mc Rann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0208, Page 311
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- (continued from previous page)Boils.
Make a poultice with soap and sugar and put it to the boil.
Cut the soap into small pieces put the sugar throught it and bruse the two into a poultice.
Ringworm.
Rub it with a gold ring, or paint it round about with iodine.
There is one kind that the seventh son cures, and another kind that the seventh daughter cures.
Sore eyes.
If you had a sore eye you wash it with black tea. On a Monday or Thursday pluck ten gooseberry thorns point nine of them at the eye and throw away the tenth.
Bleedings.
Cobwebs, down of a gosling or goose or wadding will stop a cut from bleeding.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary B Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Lee
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- Over 70
