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School: Clonmel Convent (roll number 12180)

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Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Sr M. Peadar
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0567C, Page 04_015

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    29th Sept. 1938
    Local Cures
    In the olden times people used have warts on their hands and this is how they used cure them. They used go out into the garden and get dandelion and rub the white of it to their hands and dip their hands in the pools as they used go along.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Connolly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Miss M. Connolly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Clonmel, Co. Tipperary