School: Clochar na Trócaire (roll number 13381)
- Location:
- Killarney, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An tSr. Aodán
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- The rough side of an ivy leaf will draw a wound.
The smooth side of the same leaf will heal a wound.
A cure for broken chilblains was one pint of sweet oil, three ounces of Venice turpentine, half an ounce of lard, three ounces of beeswax. These were placed in a saucepan over a gentle heat. It was stirred with a bone spoon. Then it was applied with a linen cloth.
For a horse's swollen joint hemlock was boiled, root and all, and it blistered the leg and when it dried it had to be taken off and a new lot put on.- Collector
- Joan O' Meara
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- C. O' Meara
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Knockeenduff, Co. Kerry