Scoil: Mocklershill, Caiseal (uimhir rolla 14256)

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1. Cures

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Warts: - juice of spurge; juice of dandelion.
   Coughs: - infusion of coltsfoot; syrup of poppies
   Chin-cough: - cured by food left behind by ferrets
   Antony's Fire: - dried Male Fern
   Sore eyes: - "Eyebright" apply leaf to eye. Eyebright is a plant that grows in boggy places
   To heal cuts and sores: - ointment made from broad-leaved plantain and lard: Scrofula is cured by the knotty figwort
   Burns: - plaster made of laurel-leaves; also hartstongue fern.
   Nettle-sting: cured by dock leaf. Jaundice is cured by mint.
   Ringworm: washing-soda dissolved in water. Boils: apply poultice of roast cabbage. Blood purifier: three meals of nettles in month of May
   Rickets in children: - Forge-water i.e. the water in the trough used by the smith to cool iron. Bleeding: Blood-weed growing on edge of ponds, apply and press out juice of leaf.
   In the old church of Railstown there is a waterfont. Anyone drinking the water is cured of disease.
   Put a "band"* out on St Brigid's night and you are never sick
   If you put on your left boot & stocking first every morning you never get toothache.
   Nettle-water cures murrain in cattle
   * "band" = a cloth worn round the head for "headache.

   

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   Topaicí

   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
         1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   Pat Croke

   Aois

   c. 70

   Gairm bheatha

   Farmer (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   Coll Rian, Co. Thiobraid Árann