School: Árd-Fhearta
- Location:
- Ardfert, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Tomás Ua Nuanáin
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- In old times people who were sick were cured by herbs such as the Camomile and the dandelion. Camomile was used for stomach trouble. To cure a toothache certain use was made of a frog. To cure the "thrush" old people used to put a gander's bill into the child's mouth or give it any food left after a ferret. Many years ago there was an old lady Named Liza Downey who made ointments that cured many people. If a person licked a lizard his tongue is supposed to cure a burn or a sore.
- Collector
- Josephine O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardfert, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mr O Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardfert, Co. Kerry