School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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- For the kidneys they used to use bog beans and water grass.
For a bad cut cobwebs and fairy thimbles.
Cure for yellow jaundice wood lice.
When a cow has a worm in her tail cut her tail put garlic and soot and salt in the cut.
When a horse has worms cut green broom and mix it with the oats.
If you had a thorn in your leg get the tongue of a fox and rub it along your leg and the thorn would come out.
Cure for a bad stomach, yellow meal gruel and butter milk, and green cabbage.
To cure a disease called thrush, in young babies' tongues, bring in the gander, and let him breathe into the baby's mouth for three mornings.
When a person got Yellow Jaundice the(continues on next page)
