School: Árd-achadh (B.) (roll number 14075)
- Location:
- Ardagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Anraoi Musgrave
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- (continued from previous page)persons eye. Poultice of linseed meal, is good for sores. Dandelion is a cure for the lungs.A herb called mouseen, boiled in milk, is good for the whooping cough.
Cold tea is a cure for styes.
A roasted onion and brown sugar is good for the chest.
Onions boiled in milk are good for a cold.
- Information collected from:-Mr. M Hurley,
Coolanoran,
Ardagh.The people sought remedies long ago from plants and wells. There is a well called "Keiran", near Reen's Pike, to which the people used go and pay rounds, and they were cured from sore eyes.A few snails broken up small. Put on a cloth, and put on the neck or any part of the body where a boil is, would cure it. The arrow-root is good for pains in the bones. The leaf of the foxes-tongue is put to a burn to cure it.If a person had a back-ache and whatever cure the seventh daughter would tell him to get and put to his back. He would be cured - Informant
- Mr M. Hurley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolanoran, Co. Limerick
