School: Ballysadare (2.) (roll number 11769)
- Location:
- Baile Easa Dara, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Kathleen Noble
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- (continued from previous page)lump on his head put a penny to it and it will go back.
There is a cure for cancer on the outside skin. It is taken out of the bark of timber and is made into a plaster and put on the part and it draws it out by the root.
There is a cure for erysipelas. You go to the woman that has the cure and bring her a pound and she rubs it to the place where the swelling is.
A great cure for rheumatism is to boil the ash leaves and drink the juice.
