School: Cluain Mhurchais (Hollyford) (roll number 13847)

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1. Local Cures

   

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   Local Cures St. Patrick's leaf is a cure for wounds, one side of it heals and the other side draws the matter. Rib-grass is a cure for a bleeding wound or burned-paped (?) if applied immediately stops the blood. a cure for a burn is the inner part of the elder boiled in cream to form ointment is a wonderful cure or if it is rubbed with paraffin oil and bread-soda. Burdock is a plant which has a leaf like rhubarb and when the root of it is boiled cures scurvy. I got this information from James Allis, Leacnachreena.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Alice Hayes

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Hollyford, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   James Allis

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Lackenacreena, Co. Tipperary

2. Local Cures

   

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   Nine different irons in the shape of a
   cross put to a lump or a cut would cure it.
   A piece of cooked meat tied to timber in the shape of a cross, and then tied to the (tatch) thatch on St. Martin's night is a cure for cuts.
   If the juice of the dandelion is put on warts they soon disappear.
   A black cat's blood is a cure for

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