School: Árd Phádraig
- Location:
- Ardpatrick, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pilib Ó Conaill
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- (continued from previous page)they would go away.
If you cut your hand and rub scamlus (called 'snarlus' here) to it, the cut would heal quickly.
- If a person has a sore eye and before eating his breakfast he rubs his spittle to the sore it will be cured.
- There is a plant which grows in glens and near rivers and it is said that if you rub the juice of this plant to warts it will cure them.
The master says that it is called spurge and is used for poisoning rivers.
Some of the people call this plant the lais Buide. - Collector
- Philomena Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sunville Upper, Co. Limerick
- A cure for calves:
One day William Power, Upper Sunvale, brought in a plant which he said the people used for curing calves from the disease of scour.
This plant is of a reddish colour(continues on next page)
