School: Scoil na mBráthar, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 16725)
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Mocháin
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- Cure for warts get a snail and rub it around the wart and it will cure it.
Cure for burns - boil butter-cups with lard and run it on the burn and it will cure it.
Cure for chapped hands get the juice from the roses adn rub it around the hands and it will heal them.
- Boils-: Put a poultice of bread and castor oil to the boil for a few nights and the boil will be cured.
Chill blains-: For a few hours keep your leg down in forge-water and the chill blains will be cured.
Warts a fasting spit will cure a warts.
Sting-: Bag-blue will cure a sting. - Cure for warts-: wash the warts in forge water for nine mornings and it will cure the warts.
Cure for measles-: steep sheep's safron in cold water, put it in a cloth squeese it into mile and drink it. It will cure the measles in a couple of(continues on next page) - Informant
- David Nugent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
