School: Drom Dhá Liag (C.) (roll number 12230)
- Location:
- Drimoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Dhrisceoil
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- (continued from previous page)cure by rubbing bluestone to it. Goose grease was rubbed to stiff limbs to cure them.
- There was a well at the bottom of High Street Its name was Tobar na súl. Long ago people used to come there to get their eyes cured. It is dry now. It is about a couple of hundred yards from my house. There are many herbs growing that would cure diseases. If you got a hurt or a bruise to boil wild sage and drink the juice of it would cure you. It is said that the tongue of a fox is used for to draw a thorn out of people's hands.
- Collector
- Maureen Donoghue
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromdaleague, Co. Cork