School: Drumatemple (C.) (roll number 7055)
- Location:
- Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Uí Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0260, Page 257
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- (continued from previous page)bleeding. Also a spider's web stops bleeding.
The juice of a dock-leaf is good for the sting of a nettle.
A wound that is corrupting is healed with a poultice of soap and sugar.
If a person had a thorn in her foot, she would put it in very hot water and the thorn would fall out.
A white cloth tied tightly around the head cures a headache.
If a person had a wart on his finger and rubbed a snail three times on it, and then hung the snail on a thorn bush, the wart would disappear according as the snail would wither.
The juice of oat-meal cures cracks in hand or feet.
Duilleog Pádraig is a green leaf which cures a cut. One day a rat and a weasel had a fight. The rat was getting the better part. An old man helped the weasel to fight the rat. In the fight one bit the man and each morning the weasel would come with a Duilleog Pádraig and put it on the sore. In a short time the sore was better.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Conboy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornamucklagh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Conboy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cornamucklagh, Co. Galway
