School: Lios Tuathail Buachaillí
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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- This is a cure for a cow if she has the diarrhoea boil milk and give it to her.
Another way to cure a cow of the diarrhoea give her two glasses of parafin oil.
This is a cure for a wart- tie silk thread around it.
If a cow has the diarrhoea give her hat milk and bran.
If an ass has a cut tail sub car-grease to it.
Another cure for an ass if he has a cut tail rub cow-dung to it.To cure warts you must rub castor oil to them and it weans away bit by bit.
Or if you have warts get the the same numbers of stones as warts
- Collector
- Patrick Pellican
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bedford, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Dan Shea
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Bedford, Co. Kerry
- To cure warts you must rub castor oil to them and it wears away bit by bit.
Or if you have warts get the the same numbers of stones as warts(continues on next page)
