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School: Kinnitty

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Kinnitty, Co. Offaly
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S. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0820, Page 278

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    on it about three minutes. After a while the ring-worm will disappear.
    8. A cure for a wart is to break the stem of a dandelion and press the milk out of the stem on the wart.
    9. A cure for ring-worm is to pound laurel leaves and lard into an ointment and rub it on the ring-worm.
    10. If you find a drop of water in a hole on a stone when you are not looking for it and rub it on the warts. It is supposed to cure it.
    11. A cure for haemorrhage is to get a long oval leaved plant called "rib-grass" and put it to the part that is bleeding.
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  2. Local Cures - Ringworm

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    Joseph Dooley Kilmaine parish of Clareen has a cure for Ring Worm because his father and mother were the same name before they were married. He bleeds his finger and rubs it on the Ring Worm.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. ringworm (~99)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seán Brophy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Droughtville, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    John Brophy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Droughtville, Co. Offaly