School: Moyne (B.) (roll number 13989)
- Location:
- Moyne, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Francis Doyle
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- (continued from previous page)sent the old man his medicine in half-pints - yet all failed - he grew worse. "If I had such and such an herb" said Peggy I'd cure him, and although the Jones's searched everywhere they never found the right herb. So the old man died.
From that arose the saying around here "The herb that can't be got would cure death".
Peggy's herbs were gathered in the dead of night and brewed in the dark. She used hemlock for curing certain form of rheumatism - health dandelion was brewed into a drink to cure the cold - even the dock-leaf had its use to cure stings.
Unless you believed in these old cures you wouldn't be cured at all.
- Collector
- Francis Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moyne, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Paddy Flaherty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Edenmore, Co. Longford
