School: Tullaroan (C.) (roll number 3530)
- Location:
- Tullaroan, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Eidhin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0867, Page 160
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- People had a lot of old cures long ago. The following are some of them.
To cure warts put your fasting-spit on it for nine mornings one after the other.
When the children have the chin cough they would bless themselves three times with holy-water and go in under an ass three times.
A cure for a pain in your head is to slice an onion and place the slice on a row along the cloth and tie it around your forehead.St John's Worth is a good cure for cuts. This plant grows in hedges.
Soap and sugar mixed together is able to cure boils.
A cure that was very much in use in olden times and firmly believed by old people was a cure for the chin cough. The mother of the child went out the road and the first man she met riding(continues on next page)
