School: Druim Snámha (roll number 14057)
- Location:
- Drumsna, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Haodha
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- Bluestone is used as a cure for a toothache.
Dock leaves are used as a cure for a sting of a nettle.
If you have wart on you and get a black snail and rub it on the warts and then throw the snail up a bush, according as the snail is dying the warts are going off you.
If there is a child that never saw his father it is said that it has a cure for a pain in the back.
Copper wire is used as a cure for blackley.
Tormontil is used for blackleg
Some people use the dandelion for purifying the blood.
Barragee moss is used for burns(continues on next page)- Collector
- Nancy O' Boy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lavagh, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs William O' Boy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lavagh, Co. Leitrim