School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)
- Location:
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Teachers: Pilib Ó Ó Muireadhaigh Pádraig Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 282
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- (continued from previous page)taken off and it was drunk.
Boils were cured by a poultice of loaf bread and water.
Robin-run-the hedge was boiled.
The water was used for softning the joints
To stop blood from pouring from the body is to put a cobweb on the place where it is coming from.For a sore throat is to boil milk and put a bit of butter into it and drink it.To cure wild fire is to drink the water off of marsh mallows. This plant grows in the ditch.
To cure Bronchitis is to rub turpentine on to red flannel and put it on the chest.
A cure for Asthma was to put a boiling kettle of water on a table near the bed.
Olive oil was rubbed into the wound as a cure for wounds.
It was also used for burns.A cure for eczema is to boil nettles and eat them.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Edward Kirwan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockagh, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Michael Kirwan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockagh, Co. Tipperary
