School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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“Last year, a swift had its nest under the eave-shoot of the school.”
(continued from previous page)(Sceitse)Dúnmarbhú na Fáinleoige ( leath C 113)- Some Cures.If you boil resin, lard and the bark of an elder tree together, the resulting ointment will cure boils. You can store it in a covered glass crock.If you have a bad stye on your eye. Put cold tea leaves up to it for nine mornings, and it will be cured.If you have got a bad burn, boil together raw potatoes, soap and lard, and the result applied to the burn will cure it.If you have a bad cut on your hand, pull a bull rush. Get the white stuff out of it. Put it to the cut and bind it there and it will stop the bleeding and cure the cut.