School: Duleek (B.) (roll number 6554)
- Location:
- Duleek, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Braonáin
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- (continued from previous page)The cure for worms in a horse is to give it chopped furse to eat. For worms in a dog, give it finely chopped horse hair.
The cure for consumption is to drink plenty of goats milk.
There is a weed called 'Robin run the Hedge' and there is a cure for anything wrong with the lumps on it.
There is another cure for warts. If you find a hole of water lying in a rock, put the wort in the water and when the water is gone from the hole the wart will be gone too.
To eat leaves of raw dandelion is good for consumption.
And the cure for anything of the lungs is to eat plenty of raw eggs.Seamus O'Gormáin, ó Liam O'Gormáin, Bóthar an Staisiún, Damhliag. (50-60). - Transcription guide »You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Ronan Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Duleek, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Kit Gallagher
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Duleek, Co. Meath