School: Lowtown (C.), Galbally
- Location:
- Lowe's Town, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Néill
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- List of local cures:-Juice of spurge cures warts
Laurel leaf - plaster for burns
Dried (?) for (?) fire
Eyebright for sore eyes
Roast turnips used as poutlices
Woodbine for farcy in horses
Dockleaf for nettle rash
Mint for jaundice
Syrup of poppies for a cough
Three drops of a black cat's blood for ringworm
Roast cabbage for boils
Grass - cure for haemorrhageThree good meals of nettles in the month of May - blood purifierFood left by a ferret - chincough
Dandelion - cure for jaundiceSuaidhm na Píaste - gripe in horseswalking under mare's legs - rickets