School: Killasona, Granard (roll number 14300)
- Location:
- Killasona, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ghaithbheacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0764, Page 435
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- (continued from previous page)It is said it will cure a corn to let a dog lick it.
The cure for a sore throat is to heat salt and apply it to the neck.
It is said that if you gather the first new year's snow, and the person to get a burn they should put some of the snow water on the sore and you would not find it anymore.
ASH-The bark of the ash tree is used as a lascative especially with children. The leaves are used to cure gout and rheumatism.
ANISEED- is used for wind pains and for coughs.
BLACKBERRY- leaves are are useful in cases of diarrhoea.
CHAMOMILE flowers and gentian are used as a tonic. The farmer with crushed poppy heads and used as a poltice for abscesses and swellings. It is also used for a headache.
CELERY-is useful in cases of(continues on next page)
