School: Cappamore (B.) (roll number 7480)

Location:: Cappamore, Co. Limerick
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the wart will rot away. (Patrick O'Connor) 9. If you have warts, get a paper bag and fill it with stones, and leave it outside on the road, and whoever picks up the bag of stones will get the warts. (Joe Ryan) 10. Forge water, the water that the smith puts the red iron in, wash your warts in it for nine mornings, and the warts will go away. (John Mulcahy) 11. Get a turnip and cut a hole in the middle of it and put a grain of salt in it, and rub it into them. (Michael Keating) 12. Before eating your breakfast make the sign of the cross with a spit on the warts once every morning for nine mornings. If you skip a morning you will have to start again. (Michael McCarthy) 13. Warts come if you rob a birds nest. They are lumps that come on the leg or hand. It is said that iron water is a great cure for them, or water where the blacksmith cools the steel. (Tim O'Brien) 14. The first thing one must do
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Topics
1. activities
  medical practice
  folk medicine (~11,815)
  medicine for human sicknesses
  warts (~307)
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Chris Humphreys
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Con Kemp
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James Daly
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James Finucane
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James Sweeney
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Joe Ryan
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John Mulcahy
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Michael Keating
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Michael Mc Carthy
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Paddy O' Neill
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Patrick O' Connor
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Tim O' Brien
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Tom Fitzgerald
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Willie Joe Gleeson
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