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School: Gleann Gabhna, Tulach an Iarainn

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Glengoura Lower, Co. Cork
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Máire Ní Dhubhshláinghe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0380, Page 203

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    The old people have many cures. Here are some of them.
    If a person was infected with warts this is the best method they have to cure them. They would hand a snail from the branch of a tree and leave it there for some time, and gradually the warts go.
    This is another example of cures, for instance, for a burn: they would cut a potato in slices and place one slice to the burned spot and it brings it back to perfect order again.
    Suppose a nettle stings a person he would
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Mc Grath
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballycullane, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Michael Mc Grath
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballycullane, Co. Cork