School: Doirín na nDamh (roll number 5348)
- Location:
- Derreenneanav, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)Soap, and sugar, and buttermilk, mixed together in a paste was used to draw a boil.
Old people round here had a great objection to lancing a sore. They preferred to draw the matter with a poultice.
I heard all these from old people in this neighbourhood when i was a child. They are all dead and gone now and their cures are no longer in use.- Collector
- May O Sullivan
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- Female