School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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- (continued from previous page)bush & then when the snail is whithering the wart would be whithering off your hand or knee.It is said if one would have a sty in ones eyes to make a cross three times over it with a marriage ring, it would cure it. There is a weed called the Blessed Virgins thistle it would cure any class of lump's.
- It is said that in form day's that if one put a frog into his mouth but not oneself to put it in it is a cure for a toothach. To keep it in your mouth for a few minutes and they say would never get toothache again while you live.
Nearly every one would rather gander's soup than a goose and they say that a ganders soup is better for the stomach than a goose's soup but nearly every old man and woman say it is the best.
Pupils Name:- Josie Kelly Carrigeen Borrisoleigh Co Tipperary
Gor from:- Mr. James Young Cullohill Borrisoleigh Co Tipperary
53 yrs. - Collector
- Josie Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigeen, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr James Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Cullahill, Co. Tipperary
- If had a wart on his hand or on his knee and to go out early in the morning when the due on the grass and to get a snail and rub it to the(continues on next page)
