School: Cnoc Bríde (1)
- Location:
- Knockbride, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1015, Page 241
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- (continued from previous page)reveals an inner bark of a yellow colour, when boiled in new milk is a cure for jaundice. There is only another similar growing in County Cavan.
- Before there were any flax mills people had to hand scutch flax. It was done by women or girls. They went from house to house switching the flax.
It was a very slow way. They had to erect kilns to dry it. They were most dangerous least the flax(continues on next page) - Collector
- Kate Mc Keon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockbride, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Keon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Knockbride, Co. Cavan
- On the walls of the old church in Knockbride cemetry there is an herb growing called "wallrhue". It is the cure for epilepsy. It had to be pulled by a near relative of the patient and boiled on new milk and taken fasting for nine mornings.
