School: Forgney, Ballymahon (roll number 860)
- Location:
- Forgney, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Mrs B. Higgins
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 439
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The water in which potatoes were boiled was considered good for stoping strains.
Boiled cabbage leaves were used to apply to a burn.
Brewfoot was hulled and boiled and made into a paste with lard for the cure of erysipelas. But only certain people knew how to do this properly. A man named McCord, who lives near Ballymahon, has this cure still.
- Collector
- Irene B. Finnegan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Forgney, Co. Longford
