School: Listellick, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Listellick North, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Súilleabháin
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- If you have swollen joints they are cured by boiled nettles mixed with lard and then put on as a poultice to the swollen joints. Long ago people said that if a child had a sore head and that if you got some ivy-leaves and stitch them together and put them as a cap down on the sore head it would cure them.
- Informant
- John O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Lissanearla West, Co. Kerry
- Water-Cress cut up and boiled with milk is a great cure for a bad stomach.
- Informant
- John Trant
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Listellick North, Co. Kerry