School: An Clochar, Cill Ruis
- Location:
- Kilrush, Co. Clare
- Teacher: An tSr. Pól
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- A cure for whooping cough is to drink sheep's milk.A cure for a bad heart is to pick dandelion off a meadow through which you would be travelling and to eat it raw.A cure for rheumatism is to put down a pot of green cabbage and let it boil into nothing, then take it up and rub the juice of it to the affected part.Heated sweet oil is a cure for a pain in the ear.
- Collector
- Nancy Nugent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockerra, Co. Clare
- In East Clare a plant pronounced "cumfree" is used to set broken bones in sheep. The root resembles parsnips and the leaves(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sr M. Paul
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilrush, Co. Clare