School: Listellick, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Listellick North, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Súilleabháin
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- Local Animal cures to page (200)When a horse gets internal worms the owner gets Irish Furze (Aiteann Gaedhilg) and after cutting it up he mixes it with cut-up-mangolds or turnips and then gives the mixture to the horse to eat and that cures him of the internal worms.
When an animal got ring-worm, the cure was that the owner got half-a-pound of lard and a quarter pound of sulphur and he mixed them together until they became like butter and the mixture was then applied to the ring worm with a quill.To cure Spavin the fetlock was fired with an iron. The iron was shaped like an knife and when it was red the skin of(continues on next page)- Informant
- Thomas Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Listellick North, Co. Kerry