School: Kilcullen (B.)
- Location:
- Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Broin
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- (continued from previous page)families of which most are Doyles.
- Some herbs are very useful for curing. Old people mix medicine from herbs and give it to the person that is suffering.
I know an old woman who cures warths with a small plant. When the stem is broken a kind of milk comes out which she rubs on the warths.
There is a plant called "groundsill" which is used to cure birds from sickness. It grows about six inches high and little stems with yellow ends springs from the thick stem. It is a wild plant and is easily got.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maithiú Ó Ceallaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Mr J. Sammon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Kilcullen, Co. Kildare