School: Killorglin (C.) (roll number 12833)
- Location:
- Killorglin, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Úna Nic Choluim
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0435, Page 168
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- (continued from previous page)cure a cut
6. To cure a sore neck harden salt and put it into a sock turned inside out, and wind the sock around your neck. If this is done, the neck is supposed to be better in the morning
- 1. If you had a wart on your hand and if you put a stone in a certain place for nine mornings in succession it would get better.
2. If you got a burn and if you put a bit of butter on it immediately it would get better
3. Corrageen Moss cures colds, coughs, and sore throats
4. Chicken-weed boiled in milk will c(a)ure the whooping-cough.
5. Broom would cure rheumatics
6. A fox's tongue would draw out any steel thing.
7. Cabbage leaves would cure sores
8. Bacon lard is used to cure a boil
9. If you put bread into boiling water and put it on a sore it will cure it.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Peigí Ní Fhoghludha
- Gender
- Female
