School: An Clochar, Béal an Átha Móir (roll number 13614)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: An tSr. Áthracht
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- (continued from previous page)who resided at Greaghlass, Aughnasheelin, Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim.Told by:-Mr Patick Flynn
Derrinkeher McDonald
Aughnasheelin - First you get a qr lb of sheeps kidney suet, and 1 oz of white resin, and an oz of bees wax. Then you get an oz of each of the following :- verdi-gris, daisy roots, bog-Lus, slan-Lus, ivy, white thorn,borthy, and dochen rootsNow melt the sheeps kidney suet. Then fry the herbs in fat for twenty minutes, add white resin and bees wax has dissolved, strain through a muslin cloth into an earthen jar, and set aside to cool stirring occasionally until it sets. When you want to use his plaster, get a small piece melt it and soak a piece of linen in the plaster. Then pat the plaster to the burn. Repeat till the burn is cured.
- Collector
- Maureen Rowley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Drumrane, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Ann Galloghy
- Gender
- Female