School: Knockadea, Ballylanders (roll number 11809)

Location:
Knockadea, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Nuanáin
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  1. Cures.
    If you burned your hand with a nettle, a dogleave would cure it. If you had a pain in your side. And to spit under a stone you would be cured. The cure for a burn is the skin of a frog If you burned your mouth with milk, breadsoda would cure it.
    A cure for chincough if you met a man with a white horse and to ask him for the cure. If you had a cut in your hand, moss would cure it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English