School: Harold (B.), Dalkey

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   23-5-38 There is a plant called the rock plant. It can only be got in the month of May and under rocks. About forty years ago people used to go out and get some of them. Then they used to squeeze the juice out of them and rub it on a sore and in a few days the sore would be cured.
   From Mrs Byrne
   6 Tram terrace Dalkey
   Age 36 years

   

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   There is a man named Mr O Neill who lives on Tubbermore Avenue. Long ago when the old people were bleeding and they could not stop it they used to go up to the man and he used to say a little prayer and in a few minutes the bleeding

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   Topics

   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
         1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mortimer Mooney

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Deilginis, Co. Bhaile Átha Cliath

   Informant

   Mrs Mooney

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   29

   Address

   Ascaill Phort na Carraige, Co. Bhaile Átha Cliath