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School: Baile an Gharrdha (B.) (roll number 2909)

Location:
Ballingarry, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Dll. Ó Conaill
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    Herbs :--
    Burn leaf of cabbage and apply it to sore head and it would cure it.
    Boil wild violets and drink the juice and it would cure a pain in the head.
    Burn a leaf called hartstongue and apply it to burn and it would cure it.
    A cure for a sore throat is to boil the juice of a dandelion and drink the juice.
    To rub the milk of a plant made long ago from sloe banes the method for making the tea was to dry the leaves and put them into teapot and make it the same as ordinary the. Tea was also made from agrimony,
    Got from my mother Michael Hennessy age 54 Ballingarry
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Hennessy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballingarry, Co. Limerick