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School: Doirín na nDamh (roll number 5348)

Location:
Derreenneanav, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0467, Page 301

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    “Burnt briar leaves powdered finely are a cure for chafed skin.”

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    Burnt briar leaves podered finely are a cure for chafed skin.
    The roots of Iris boiled and pounded and applied as a plaster is a cure for sores in the head.
    The inner bark of elm boiled to a jelly is a cure for burn's
    The leaves of dandelion pounded and the juice strained off and drunk cures liver complaint
    The outer bark of a young oak tree boiled and the juice applied to the breast of an animal that has been skinned by a collar soon brings skin on the wound.
    The camomile flowers dried and boiling water poured on them is a cure for neuralgia and other nerve pains.
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    “On Hallow'een night I heard from an old man this story of a Hallow'een night many years ago.”

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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Halloween (~934)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Teresa O Sullivan
    Gender
    Female