School: Ashfort (B.), Ráthluirc
- Location:
- Ashford, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Muiris Ó Mathúna
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- (continued from previous page)When you would get the plant you should pound it, and put it up to the persons leg that would be bad. If a person had a swollen hand or leg, it would be cured by a plant called the camemile, it grows in a yard where there would not be much topdress and you should roast it and put it up to the persons hand that would be swollen. If a person had corns on his feet and if he went out on the dew a frosty morning it would cure them. It is said that if a child had chin-cough and if a man was going the road riding a white horse, and if you ask him any cure for chin-cough, and if he said a drink of water of anything. Given what what the man said to the child and he would get all right. If a person had a headache he would rub vinegar ([?]) to his forehead. if a person suffered from back- ache he would get a plate and warm it to the fire. Dip the flannel clothe in boiling water sprinkle turpentine on the clothe and put it to the persons back that would be sore.
- Collector
- Michael Twomey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tooreennagreana, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mr Twomey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tooreennagreana, Co. Limerick
