School: Scoil na mBráthar, Calainn

Location:
Callan, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
An Mháthair M. Síle
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0853, Page 339

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0853, Page 339

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    Water found in a hole on a decaying trunk of the beech tree will cure scruff, scabs or running sores if they are washed with it
    A cabbage leaf boiled with honey and a drop of the mixture, put into the corner of the eye will cure any scum growing on the eye- ball
    Water cress is good for the blood when taken in the Spring. It should be eaten raw with salt every day, so no medicine that can be bought for money is as good
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Eibhlín Ní Liathán
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Baunta, Co. Kilkenny