School: Carrickallen
- Location:
- Carrickallen, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Lynch
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- We are not so well versed in cures and herbs as our Grandmothers were.
In country places some of theese cures are still known and used.
A very good remedy for a cough is the juice of a white turnip.
It is made by slicing the turnip and covering the slices with brown sugar.
A simple cure for earache is to roast an onion take out the heart and put it as hot as possible into the ear.
A stocking filled with roasted potatoes pined a round the neck is a good cure for a sore throat.
Honey is a well(continues on next page)- Collector
- Philip O' Donoghue
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrickallen, Co. Cavan