School: Tolerton, Ballylickmoyler (roll number 11321)
- Location:
- Towlerton, Co. Laois
- Teacher: L. Ó Broin
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- (continued from previous page)and ulcers. He cures warts from olive oil and castor oil and the juice of various herbs mixed together.
He makes the cures for boils from milk and bread. He makes ointment for ulcers. There is a man named, Thomas Edmonds in Garrendenny who can lift a dropped breast - bone.
There is a woman in Killeshin named Mrs Curran. This woman is said to have a cure for childrens fever and the yellow jaundice. It is said that she cured many people of those diseases.
If you have a sty on your eye, get a thorn off of a gooseberry - bush, and stick it in the sty, and it will go away.
There is a woman in Ardateggle named Mrs Conlon who(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gwen Atkinson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Monavea, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Mrs Atkinson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Monavea, Co. Laois
