School: Both Íseal (roll number 16744)
- Location:
- Boheeshil, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus Ua Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0470, Page 038
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- Long ago the old people used the following cures for diseases.
They used the ivy for curing skin diseases.
They used nettles for purifying the blood.
The used the dandilion for the nerves.
They used the "Rilleogs" for curing the cattle from murr[ain?]. First they boiled it and gave it to the cattle to drink.
- Long ago people used the following cures.
They used the foxes tongue for curing sores in the skin.
They used the Rilleogs of the slough to cure cattle that had dry-murran. - Informant
- William Foley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Shronahiree Beg, Co. Kerry
