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School: Cill Díoma (B.) (roll number 6516)

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Cill Díoma, Co. Luimnigh
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Seosamh Ó Scealláin
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    well to their eyes and drink a glass of it.
    There is a white skin growing inside the root of the dock leaf and if you took out this and put it on a person who had a sore lip it would cure it in a day.
    If you had a wart on your hand and to be walking along a field where there were rocks with holes in the and water in the holes, if you rubbed that water to the wart it would cure it. If you were in a neighbour's house eating your dinner and to steal some fat meat and bury it in dung, after a month when the meat would be rotten if you came and rubbed it to the wart it would cure it.
    If you had a wart and to go bathing in salt water it would cure it in a few days.
    William O'Shea,
    Ballyvareen,
    Kildimo,
    Co. Limerick.
    Obtained from father. Age 56.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
        1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    William O Shea
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Baile Mhoirín, Co. Luimnigh