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School: Baile Uí Ghrádaigh, Ceann Tuirc

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Ballygrady South, Co. Cork
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N., Bean de Róiste
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0365, Page 122

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    is good for corns.
    To heat a burn to a fire it would cure it if it was not a bad burn.
    It is said that if you had a bad tooth-ache if you put your finger in on top of your tongue it would cure it.
    It is said that if you put a ribbon on a hedge on St. Brigid's night, St. Brigid is supposed to come and bless it and it is a good cure for a headache.
    The dandelion is a cure for the yellow jaundice.
    If a ferret or a sheep left it is also another cure for the yellow jaundice.
    Brown paper and wax is a cure for a boil.
    The white - thorn is a cure for collitus.
    The bark of an oak tree is a cure for the disease on calves called scour.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English