School: Ross (roll number 12789)
- Location:
- Ross, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Cáit Bean Uí Mhaoláin
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- (continued from previous page)shaped leaves are a cure for the jaundice.
Cough- grass for a cold
Buttercups - for a complaint known as hearthburn
Chicken-weed for a swoollen joint.
House-leek for sore eyes
Marsh-mallow for cattle with swoollen udders
Colts foot for sore throats
These medicines are used for the diseases named. The herbs are boiled in as little water as possible so that the medicine may be strong
Salve is made for cuts and wounds with the little flower which we see growing in our lanes known as wild pansies.
Dandelion juice is good to drink for a week heart and bones.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mrs Joseph Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Mount Nugent, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Joseph Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Farren Connell, Co. Cavan