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School: Gráinseach, Cill Mocheallóg (roll number 9970)

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Grange, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Loínsigh
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  1. Local Cures (continued)

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    The Yarrow
    The yarrow contains pungent juices and is supposed to cure toothache and head ache; and ointments made from it are very good for curing wounds.
    Water in a rock
    If you go abroad before breakfast and find water in a hole in a rock and if you make the sign of hte cross on your warts with the water three times the warts will disappear.
    The dock leaf
    A leaf of a dock will cure the sting of a nettle by rubbing the juice of the dock leaf well into the wart. James Harty, Road Ganger, Grange, Kilmallock
    The cabbage leaf
    The juice fo a cabbage leaf when rubbed well into a burn cures the wound
    The Warth Leaf
    The leaf of a wart plant
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mr John Clancy
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Carpenter
    Address
    Grange, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mr John Dooley
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Grange, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mr Patrick Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Gaol warden
    Address
    Grange, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mr Stephen O' Brien
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Labourer
    Address
    Grange, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mr Thomas Sheehan
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Ballynagarde, Co. Limerick