School: Scoil na mBráthar, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 16725)

Location:
Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
An Br. Ó Cáinte
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0566, Page 009

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0566, Page 009

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    Hoarseness - Old people say that if you put ground ivy in water and drink the water it cures hoarseness.

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    Warts
    To rub the juice of an apple to them and then bury the apple in a hole and when the apple would rot the warts would rot also.
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    Chilblane: put a hole in a turnip and put some salt into the hole and leave it in the turnip until it would become water and bathe the chilblane with the water every night.

    “Chilblane: put a hole in a turnip
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. chilblains (~51)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Richard Walsh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cussan, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mrs Meehan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cussan, Co. Kilkenny