School: An Clochar, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 5636)
- Location:
- Clogher, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Bríd
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- (continued from previous page)sage and drink the water in which it is boiled.
The ancient cure for obliterating boils was to get "meacain dathóga" from beside a river, boil it and then apply it to the boils. This was also a cure for ringworm.
A drink of cammomile tea was the cure for a gumboil.
When stung by a nettle, if one rubbed the dock-leaf, the sting came out.
For extracting thorns, the fox's tongue was the old cure.- Collector
- Nell Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dunmanway, Co. Cork