School: An Ghráinseach, Mainistir Fhearmuighe (roll number 12700)

Location:
Grange West, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Díomsaigh
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    donkey's belly and over her back three times.
    If a person had Yellow Jaundice to boil dandelion and to drink the juice of it was supposed to be a cure.
    It was believed in olden times that paraffin oil and washing soda boiled together would cure Ringwork if rubbed to it.
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  2. It was an old cure for warts to pick a thorn off a gooseberry bush for every wart and bury them in the ground and as the thorns decayed the warts were supposed to disappear off the person's hands.
    It was a cure for asty on the eye to make the Sign of th Cross on it.
    It was believed that a cure for stopping the blood of a cut finger was to wind a spider's web around
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Kiely
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Grange West, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mr John Kiely
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    40
    Address
    Grange West, Co. Cork