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School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)

Location:
Thomastown, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Éamonn Ó Dubhlaine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0576, Page 353

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    rash.
    The juice of the house leek is good for sore eyes.
    Roasted onions or garlic for poultices.
    How to cure warts gets a snail in the field and rub it to the wart and stick it through a white thorn bush and when the snail withers the warts wither.
    The blessed Virgin thistle is good for a sore breast.
    Marsh mallows is a great drawing plaster.
    The shin of a dog root is good for a sore lip.
    To cure Rheumatism beat your shoulder with a nettle.
    Willaim Beston
    Thomastown,
    Golden
    co. Tipperary
    Told by my mother,
    Mrs Beston. (54)
    Thomastown.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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