School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin
- Location:
- Davidstown, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Róisín Bhreathnach
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- (continued from previous page)squeezed out, and the juice mixed with butter or lard.12. Felons:-
(a) A herb, called Rue, chopped up and put on the finger cures a "felon".
(b) Rue and felon-grass.
(c) Felon-grass, rue, and oat-meal porridge made into a poultice and pt to the felon.
(d) Felon ointment, made from felon-grass, marsh-mallows and other herbs.13. Whittleos:_
(a) Dip in boiling potato water three times.
(b) Wash well with boiling water, and poultice with white turnip.(A felon is a swelling on the top of the finger. The finger is never the same, even when the felon is cured. The bone is affected. A whittleo is a swelling around the nail (cuticle)14. Kidney Trouble:-
(a) Boil fraughen bushes(continues on next page)- Informant
- Mr Arthur Hanlon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Knockaderry, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mr Michael Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 61
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Snugborough, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Lambert
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Coolamaddra, Co. Wicklow