School: Thomastown Convent (roll number 16028)
- Location:
- Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: An tSr M. Lelia
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- (continued from previous page)sting of a nettle would cure it.
There is supposed to be a great cure attached to a dog's tongue.
- Long ago a child suffering from the chin cough, now known as the whooping cough, was cured by crawling between a donkey's legs.
Herbs, called Marsh Malice, were used to poultice an abcess and white turnip poultice were commonly used also.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Agnes Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballydonnell, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Ryan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballydonnell, Co. Kilkenny
