School: Crecora, Tobar Pádraig (roll number 9668)
- Location:
- Crecora, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ainnín
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- Cures were handed down traditionally. Our grandfathers and grandmothers knew cures for all ailments.
Here are a few of them.
Dock-leaf - is supposed to be a cure for a sting of a nettle or a sting of a wasp.
Slánlúg{?} - when chews in the mouth and applied to a cut stops it bleeding.
Dendelion - used as a salad - to purify the Blood.
Yarrow - boiled in new milk used as a cure for Rheumatism.
Marsh Mallow - used for swelling or sprains.
Nettles - used 3 times during March to prevent illness.
Sloes - used for dyeing
Alder-berries - also used for dyeing.
Nettles - used as a cure Murrian in cattle.
Melon-plant - leaves boiled in milk supposed(continues on next page)- Collector
- Seán Ó Finn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lemonfield, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Seán Ó Finn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lemonfield, Co. Limerick