School: Clochar Muire, Tobar an Choire (roll number 12166)
- Location:
- Tobercurry, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Nioclás
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0171, Page 338
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- (continued from previous page)2. A week that grows in the bog is also good.
Heart-Failure:-
The juice of dandelions.
Burns:-
Get the "sloms" out of a river and put them on the burn and then bandage it.
Cow-Pox:-
Some people say if a person writes his own name on the cow-pox with ink that it will be cured in a few days.
Palate Down or Hoarseness:-
Long ago some people had the cure of the "palate down" of hoarseness. They used to put a roasted potato on top of the persons head and pull out so many ribs of hair with their teeth and say some prayers and in a few days the person was cured.
