School: Clais, Athea (roll number 15100)

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Keale, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Liam Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0485, Page 141

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    to cure the yellow jaundice about sixty years ago the person that had the disease had to go to his house for nine mornings and each morning he would throw a cake again at the wind and hide a bottle of water and the disease was supposed to be completely gone on the ninth day. In Fitzgeralds farm Glensharold there is a big rock in which water lodges in a hallow in the middle of it and is said if the water is rubbed to warts seven mornings it will cure them.
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    Richard Woulfe Knocknagorna suffered from headache very often...

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. headache (~58)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Josie Woulfe
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Moran
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    85
    Address
    Clash North, Co. Limerick