School: Fergus View, Lissycasey (roll number 10322)
- Location:
- Caherea, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Gearaidh
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- A Wound: To rub the rough side of a cabbage leaf to a wound and it would draw it. To rub the smooth side of a cabbage leaf to the wound and it would heal it.
A Weak Heart: Nettles are left boiling for two hours and are eaten. This is done three times a year.
A Wound: To leave the smooth side of an ivy leaf to the wound and it would draw it, and to leave the rough side of an ivy leaf to the would and it would heal it.
A Cold: Garlic is a cure for a cold.
Warts: The water the blacksmiths have in the forge is a cure for warts.
A Sore Throat: The ferrets leavings, meaning portion of milk left after the ferret had drank the rest, is a(continues on next page)- Collector
- Joseph Neilan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Informant
- Mrs Ellen Meaney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Darragh, Co. Clare