School: Shallee, Tulach Sheasta (roll number 6245)
- Location:
- Shallee (Coughlan), Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Chonchubhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0538, Page 167
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- (continued from previous page)to boil the dandelion and drink the juice of it and they did the same with the cumfrey.
Any person who had thrush used to rub honey to his mouth to cure it.
The blood of a black cat was used to cure wild-fire. A child born after its father's death could also cure the wild-fire.
If a person had a pain in his ear and he put the wool of a black sheep into his ear it would cure it.
There is a weed growing with a black spot in it and if it applied to a bleeding wound it will stop the blood.
When we get a sting of a nettle we put a dock leaf to cure it.
If you had warts and you found a stone with a hole in it and water in the hole you should rub the water to the warts and it would cure them.
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- Maggie Kennedy
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- Mrs Kennedy
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