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School: Cill Rosanta (C.), Coill Mhic Thomáisín

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Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford
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Áine Ní Fhaoláin
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    1. Drink the water of boiled herbs with [?] in it to improve the sight.
    2. Once upon a time a woman was running after pigs in a bog and she stepped into a boghole and she was all wet. She had alot of corns and when she went home they were all cured.
    3. Rub a snail to worts and they will wither.
    4. Worts could be washed in lios well water to cure them also.
    5. A dog's lick is good for corns.
    6. The ashes of a burned fern rubbed to ringworm would cure it.
    7. Ink is good for Wildfire.
    8. Colds were cured long ago by eating [?] before breakfast every morning for one week.
    9. When old people used to have pains in their heads they used to get herbs and steep them in hot water then they used to strain the herbs and drink the water.
    10. Some people say that if the yellow tops that are growing on the furze were boiled
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie Crotty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilrossanty, Co. Waterford
    Collector
    Nora Kirwan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilrossanty, Co. Waterford
    Informant
    John Crotty
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    54
    Address
    Kilrossanty, Co. Waterford
    Informant
    Patrick Kirwan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Kilrossanty, Co. Waterford