School: Listellick, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Listellick North, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0443, Page 019
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- A dog getting the hysteria or "fits" was cure by getting some blue used for washing clothes mixed with a little blue stone and a spoon of bread soda all mixed together and put into a bottle containing some water and it was then given as a tonic three times a day to the dog.
To cure the itch in animals they used to get sulphur lard and salt-peter and after mixing them together the mixture was rubbed on to the itchy part of the animal
If a cow had the murren they used to boil nettles and then they gave her the nettle juice or nettle water to drink.
When a cow got a swollen-udder goose-grease or palm oil or train oil was rubbed on to the swollen udder(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Thomas Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 86
- Address
- Listellick North, Co. Kerry
