School: Listellick, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Listellick North, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Súilleabháin
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- The roots of the thistle were cleaned and cut up and then boiled into pulp and then put so as a poultice to swollen horse legs - the roots of comfrey were used in the same way.A cure for the pip was to put a rib of horse's hair down the fowl's throat.
- Another cure for the pip was that the farmer used to put lime into the box where the hens used to be kept.A cure for ring-worm was to rub it with blue-stone.
- Informant
- Dan Dowling
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Ballynahoulort, Co. Kerry