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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 334

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    Dandelion - tea
    taken fifteen mornings in succession is a cure for a weak heart.

    Garlic - is a cure for a cough in cattle.
    Nettles - is good for purifying the blood.
    The Dandelion - is a cure for a headache

    The Daisy is used as a cure fore warts.

    People used Dog-rushes boiled with powder as a cure for ringworm.

    To heat the heart of the White thorn is a cure for a heart burn.

    Rushes grow in low boggy land and they are only seen in bad land.

    Gormán grows in waste land usually near a river.

    Robin-run-the-hedge grows in and out through a thorny hedge and it sticks to clothes.

    St Patrick's Cabbage
    There is a cure in St Patrick's Cabbage for rash.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Janie Mc Neill
    Address
    Cloonaddra, Co. Roscommon