School: Scoil na mBráthar, Calainn
- Location:
- Callan, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: An Mháthair M. Síle
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- (continued from previous page)blood and liverCranes bill is a cure for morrin in cattle. For people it is boiled in water and taken as a medicine for gravel. For wounds it is bruised and put to the wound
Southern wood heated in warm water and taken cures a cramp and convulsions and refension (?). Dried and taken as a powder it kills worms in children . If the herb is bruised and put to the finger that a splinter of wood has got into it will draw it out. If the herb is dried and burned and the ashes mixed with olive oil it will cure baldness(continues on next page)- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Liathán
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- Baunta, Co. Kilkenny