School: Scoil na mBráthar, Caiseal (roll number 16726)
- Location:
- Cashel, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Br. B. E. Ó hOireabháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0555, Page 232
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- (continued from previous page)A sting of a nettle. Get a dock leaf and break it up, then rub the juice of it to the place you got the sting and the sting goes.
A wart. Get two straws and put them in the form of a cross. Then rub the cross to the wart. After that bury the cross in the ground and when the straw is rotten the wart goes.
Black leg in a calf - Get a plant garlic, cut it up and tie it to the calf's tail with a red cloth and the Black leg goes.
Sun burn on a person = Go out on the first morning of May and wash your face with the dew on the grass and the sun burn goes
Fever - Boil nettles like cabbage and eat three feeds of it during the month of May and the fever will go.
A ring worm - Write the person's name around the ring worm with ink and the ring worm won't enlarge.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martin Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlemoyle North, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr James Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlemoyle North, Co. Tipperary
