School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)
- Location:
- Baile Thomáis, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Dubhlaine
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- (continued from previous page)farmers used to kill their pigs for their own use. They would keep a big piece of bacon hanging up in the chimney for seven years for a cure and anyone that would come to them for a cut of green bacon for a lump on a man's neck or a boy's neck they would come miles away for that cure. They were called lumps in the old days but now they are called an abscess.
A cure for warts is to go into a house and steal a pece of meat and rub it to the warts for six mornings and bury the meat then and according as the meat is rotting away the warts are fading away.
Patrick O Dowd,
Moat Quarter,
Kilfeacle,
Co: Tipperary.
Told by my grandmother
Mrs O Donnell (76)
Moat Quarter
Kilfeacle.
- Long ago when St. Patrick was in Ireland a man was going cutting hay on a Sunday morning with a scythe. This man had(continues on next page)
