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School: Dromcollchoille (C.)

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Dromcolliher, Co. Limerick
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Caitlín, Bean Uí Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0497, Page 304

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    of each herb or plant.
    All herbs or plants required for cures should be got cut or pulled before the month of May, as if not the plants are useless for cures if they are allowed to grow into flowers or seeds. The nettle if pulled in time is a great cure for anemia.
    To affect a cure a bunch of those nettles must be pulled in a field, roots and leaves, and must be washed first, and then put into a bowl for two hours, and must be drunk once every day. This cure is used everywhere in Sweden, and it is supposed to be some Irish person that took the cure there.
    Rheumatism has many cures, but at present it seems as if rheumatism is
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Hannah Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Dromcolliher, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    James Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    61
    Address
    Dromcolliher, Co. Limerick