School: Cill an Daingin, Nenagh (roll number 6658)
- Location:
- Killadangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó hOgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0534, Page 109
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- (continued from previous page)To cure rheumatism a person should rub the stiff parts with nettles - preferable wet ones. A wet dock-leaf rubbed on a nettle-sting gives relief.
Laurel leaves were used to heal burns. These were roasted and mixed with lard. Then a plaster was made and applied to burns. Wild roses were said to cure the bite of a mad-dog.
As we all know the thorns of the wild-rose tree are turned down. It is said that when the devil was cast out of heaven he attempted to get back there again. He saw a rose-tree with its thorns turned upwards.
This he attempted to climb as he would climb up a ladder. When God saw this he ordered that the thorns be turned(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sara Hogan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Larkin's Hill, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Hogan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Larkin's Hill, Co. Tipperary
