School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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it to the sore it would draw out any bad stuff that would be in a sore.To boil leaf in milk and put it to a drop it would cure it.Wax would cure a gaug in a person's hand fast.
A bit of ash or elm would cure a skum in a cows eye.To pull a branch of each and boil them a put it to the eye.
The Dandelion would cure a cough .To cut it up and strain it and drink the juice of it.
Cumfrey would cure a broken leg .To wash the root and scrape it and put it to the leg.
- Collector
- Annie Devaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Scalp, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs Fanny Vaughan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Scalp, Co. Clare
