School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)
- Location:
- Thomastown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Dubhlaine
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- (continued from previous page)rash.
The juice of the house leek is good for sore eyes.
Roasted onions or garlic for poultices.
How to cure warts gets a snail in the field and rub it to the wart and stick it through a white thorn bush and when the snail withers the warts wither.
The blessed Virgin thistle is good for a sore breast.
Marsh mallows is a great drawing plaster.
The shin of a dog root is good for a sore lip.
To cure Rheumatism beat your shoulder with a nettle.Willaim Beston
Thomastown,
Golden
co. TipperaryTold by my mother,
Mrs Beston. (54)
Thomastown. - Cures
A cure for a burn is breadsoda.
A cure for a boil is soap and sugar.
A cure for a sting of a wasp is blue.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Michael Magner
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Thomastown, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Matthew Magner
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Thomastown, Co. Tipperary