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School: Ahane (C.) Lisnagry (roll number 563)

Location:
Ahane, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
L. T. Walsh
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    1/ Wash Corns, and melt a piece of washingsoda on a spoon and let the washing soda drop on the corns this old people did for to take away Corns.
    2) There is a green leaf that grows on the top of water in the bog, this also old people rubbed on corns.
    3) Another cure was to pare corns and rub Castor-oil on the corns old people did this too to take corns away.
    4) Another cure was to get get a piece of Cobbler's wax and to put it on a piece of brown paper this old people put to corns.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. animal husbandry (~2,587)
            1. medicine for animal sicknesses (~175)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brigid Conway
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballynacourty, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mrs Conway
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballynacourty, Co. Limerick