School: Knockgraffon (roll number 10560)
- Location:
- Knockgraffon, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mary B. Cleary
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0559, Page 137
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- The farsi usually effects horses ponies and asses. The old people had a cure for it. They used to get a wild plant called Woodbine and then they to cut a hole in the forehead of the animal and cross the woodbine in the cut and then used to stitch it with woolen thread and say some words while stitching it.
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- Collector
- M. B. Cleary
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Informant
- Gerald Carew
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockgraffon, Co. Tipperary
