School: Clochar na Trocaire
- Location:
- Tuam, Co. Galway
- Teacher: an tSiúr M. Oilibhéir
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- (continued from previous page)the Weavers for a piece of the flannel theras and put it around the sprained toe. It is bliaved that it would cure it.
Toothache. The cure for a toothache is to put a worm in a bottle when the worm dies the toothache will go.
Whooping cough. If you meet a woman who has married a man with the same name as herself, borrow a piece of bread from her and give it to the person who has the whooping cough it is a sure cure for it.
A wasps sting. A cure for a sting of a wasp is a raw onion and blue.
Ring worm. A cure for ring worm is to write your name around it.
To boil nettles and drink the juice is a cure for carrabuncles.
A nettle sorch. A dockleaf is a uased to ease the pain of a nettle sorch.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maura Cronin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tuam, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Lohan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tuam, Co. Galway