School: Cobh Labhráis (C.) (roll number 7453)
- Location:
- Rerrin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0277, Page 248
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- (continued from previous page)turnips are set. Other herbs used by our ancestors for medicinal purposes - wild sage, camomile, water-cress and many others. Wild sage and camomile were used for coughs, by boiling them and drawing them like tea.
Water-cress was used just as it was, and dandelion was also used for curing sleeplessness.
- In the olden times the people used herbs to cure certain diseases such as - wild sage was boiled in water and strained and that water cured any person who would have a cough. Camomile which is a green creeping plant, was an excellent cure when boiled for a sore throat, and the young girls used to wash their hair with the water in which camomile was boiled.
Mint which is a fairly tall plant, was made into mint-tea and drunk for the good of the health, water-cress was used for the same purpose. In the month of June when nettles were in bloom, the people(continues on next page) - Collector
- Margaret Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr F. Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardagh, Co. Cork
