School: Cluain na gCorp (Cloneyharp) (roll number 1706)
- Location:
- Clonyharp, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Chinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0583, Page 045
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- Whitlow
This is a cure for a whitlow. Plunge your finger into boiling potatoe water and apply a poultice of linseed meal.Wart
1 Supposing you were in a field and met a stone with a hole in it dip your finger into the water in the hole
2 Or if you were out walking on a dewy morning, and chanced to meet a snail rub the back of the snail to the wart, then hang it on a white-thorn bush and when the snail is withering away, the wart will also be going
3 Another cure is to rub knots of straw to them, then bury the straw in the ground and while the straw is decaying the wart will be decaying also.
4 A cure for warts is to put four little stones in a bag and them leave at a cross of four roads(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maura Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonyharp, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- John Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonyharp, Co. Tipperary
