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School: Ahane (C.) Lisnagry (roll number 563)

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Ahane, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
L. T. Walsh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0524, Page 008

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    1) To get a dock-leaf and roast it over the fire and then rub fat meat on it and put it on the burn and the same thing should be done every day until the burn was healed.
    2) To get a leaf called hounds tongue and take the vein off the back of it and put it on the tongs over the fire and heat it and then slap it between your hands and put it up hot to the burn.
    3) To fry a cabbage leaf in fat.
    4) To go out and get a fresh cow dung and put it on the burn and that was suppose to cure it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. burns (~116)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridget Hourigan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Annagh, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mrs Kennedy
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Clonsingle, Co. Tipperary