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School: Athea (roll number 15686)

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Athea, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Mrs M. Danaher
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  1. Cures for Animals (continued)

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    1. Place a coat of car-grease on the sore part.
    Blast-:
    2. Rub sour milk to the udder every day until the udder is its natural size again.
    Ruadh Péisce-:
    2. This is said when a calf has a "griping" and another cure for it is to have a woman strike the animal across the loins nine times with her apron.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. animal husbandry (~2,587)
            1. medicine for animal sicknesses (~175)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Eibhlín De Stach
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Athea Upper, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mrs Stack
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Athea Upper, Co. Limerick