School: Sráid na Cathrach (B.) (roll number 8850)
- Location:
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0622, Page 277
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- (continued from previous page)or you must not tell it to anyone until the warts are gone.
- Long ago when there were no doctors the people had to work their own cures.
There was a very old woman living here long ago and she was complaining of rheumatism.
She went to a man that knew a lot about old cures and she asked him had he any cure for rheumatism.
He told her to go home and to pick a species of small wild tansy that grows on "sod" walls and hedges. In summer it has one small flower and so she did.
She put the "Turkeys (Tl) Tansey"(continues on next page) - Collector
- Joe Woulfe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonbony, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mr Woulfe
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Cloonbony, Co. Clare
