School: Kinnitty
- Location:
- Kinnitty, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Ó Murchadha
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- (continued from previous page)on it about three minutes. After a while the ring-worm will disappear.8. A cure for a wart is to break the stem of a dandelion and press the milk out of the stem on the wart.9. A cure for ring-worm is to pound laurel leaves and lard into an ointment and rub it on the ring-worm.10. If you find a drop of water in a hole on a stone when you are not looking for it and rub it on the warts. It is supposed to cure it.11. A cure for haemorrhage is to get a long oval leaved plant called "rib-grass" and put it to the part that is bleeding.
- Joseph Dooley Kilmaine parish of Clareen has a cure for Ring Worm because his father and mother were the same name before they were married. He bleeds his finger and rubs it on the Ring Worm.