School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
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- Wild Sage
is a cure for a hurt.
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Tansy
is an herb having on it the picture of a wart. This part of it is the cure for warts.
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Robin Run the Hedge
is a cure for Ringworm
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Penniwinkle
This when peeled is a cure for boils.
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Cos Dubh
which is an herb growing through the rock is a cure for Pleurisy.
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Nóinín (Daisy)
is an herb which blots out marks left by sores
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The Devil's Bit
is an herb on which is seen the bite taken from it and is said to be a cure for Indigestion.
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Cleas na Péiste
made nine times over an animal having a pain is supposed to cure it.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Josephina Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drishane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs E. Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Drishane, Co. Cork