School: Lisín na hEilte (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Lisheennaheltia, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraic Ó Séadhacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0017, Page 129
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- (continued from previous page)with its juice and it would cure it. There is a good cure for a cut. Het an ivy leaf and warm it near the fire. Then it would get soft and juicy. When the juice would start to fall out of it, leave it on the cut, and put a clean white cloth around it, and it would heal up very quickly. If a person had a sore eye, and to get the stuff that grows on the gable end of a house and to rub it on the eye it is said to cure it. Ring-worm if a person had ring-worm and to get lime and rub it on the ring-worm it would cure it. If a person or a beast had ring-worm and wanted to cure it, if he mixed sulphur, lime and sweet-oil together and rubbed it on the ring-worm it would cure it. If a person had yellow jaundice he should get moss that grows in the bog. This moss is called "Crúb sionnach". Then he should get a worm(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martin Ward
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Patch, Co. Galway
