School: Lios an Uisce (roll number 14356)
- Location:
- Lissanisky, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Hánnrachtaigh
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- Coughs:- Boil the tops of heather in water procured from a bog hole. The drinking of the boiled juice was supposed to cure Coughs.Teethaches:- If a tooth procured when digging a grave was rubbed to one's teeth it was supposed preventative of teethaches for ever after. Chin Cough. To meet a man with a white horse and to ask him for a cure for the chin cough. The use of what ever medicine he prescribed was a supposed cure for this ailment.Warts. To find a stone with a hollow in which the water rests. To bathe the warts in the water in the name of the 3 Divine persons cured warts.Burns. Cured by applying the leaves which remain in the tea pot after drawing the tea.
Ivy leaves and lard also a cure(continues on next page)