School: Cluain Mhurchais (Hollyford) (roll number 13847)

Location:
Hollyford, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Liam Ó Donnchadha
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  1. Local Cures
    St. Patrick's leaf is a cure for wounds, one side of it heals and the other side draws the matter.
    Rib-grass is a cure for a bleeding wound or burned-paped (?) if applied immediately stops the blood.
    a cure for a burn is the inner part of the elder boiled in cream to form ointment is a wonderful cure or if it is rubbed with paraffin oil and bread-soda.
    Burdock is a plant which has a leaf like rhubarb and when the root of it is boiled cures scurvy.
    I got this information from James Allis, Leacnachreena.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Alice Hayes
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Hollyford, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    James Allis
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lackenacreena, Co. Tipperary
  2. Nine different irons in the shape of a
    cross put to a lump or a cut would cure it.
    A piece of cooked meat tied to timber in the shape of a cross, and then tied to the (tatch) thatch on St. Martin's night is a cure for cuts.
    If the juice of the dandelion is put on warts they soon disappear.
    A black cat's blood is a cure for
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.