School: Mullach na Sídhe (C.) (roll number 15426)
- Location:
- Fairymount, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0239, Page 199
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- (continued from previous page)A stone bruise
Apply a slice of fat bacon at night, to ripen it, and when it is ripe, get a slice of soap, and a spoon of sugar. Blend them up well, + then put it the bruise. It will take it away without any pain
Scorch of a nettle.
The slimy stuff of a "docken" will cure a scorch.
The plant is pulled up by the root, above which, is a small thin leaf, + when it is pulled out from the stem there is a kind of skin, (which) with this slimy stuff inside it.
When this is put on the scorch, it makes (it makes) it all right
Cuts.
There is a plant called comfrey, which it very good for cuts.
It has a root like an onion, + a fairly large leaf. It generally grows wild.
The root (It, is pounded up well, first + (will)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Dubhthaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fairymount, Co. Roscommon
