School: Scoil na mBráthar, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 16725)
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Mocháin
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- Cure for warts get a snail and rub it around the wart and it will cure it.
Cure for burns - boil butter-cups with lard and run it on the burn and it will cure it.
Cure for chapped hands get the juice from the roses adn rub it around the hands and it will heal them.
- Boils-: Put a poultice of bread and castor oil to the boil for a few nights and the boil will be cured.
Chill blains-: For a few hours keep your leg down in forge-water and the chill blains will be cured.
Warts a fasting spit will cure a warts.
Sting-: Bag-blue will cure a sting. - Transcription guide » You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Informant
- David Nugent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
