School: An Corrbhaile
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máirtín Mac Coitir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0627, Page 332
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“Long ago there were no doctors and the old people were as good as doctors.”
(continued from previous page)will be cured of them. This was the best cure they had for sores, got from a pick of a thorn or glass or bruises that mortises and evils. You are required to get two pence worth of rasin, two pence worth of soft soap, two pence worth of mutton suet, two pence worth of verdigris, two pence worth of bees wax.. Melt the bees wax, rasin, and mutton suet, then mix them all together until they are in a thick plaster then called "The Green Plaster". Before using it should be heated to the fire to soften. I have received all this knowledge from my father and mother.
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