School: Loughine, An Sciobairín (roll number 12319)
- Location:
- Pookeen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: David Ó Caoimh
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- Cure for Rheumatism is [?]
Cure for Rheumatism is to wash your feet in salt water and in weeds.
Cure for toothaches the people used go to a tomb In Ross and scrape the earth off the tomb and rub it to their teeth
Cure for Headaches:- to rub vinegar to brown paper and to put it up to your forehead.
Cure for Thrush:- to rub honey to the roof of your mouth with a cloth.
Cure for Erysiplas, is to pull the Sweet Forget me not and roast it and mix flour through it and put it up to the plain.
Cure for deafness:- is to go to a holy well in the townland of Highfield and gather ten little stones and go around the well ten times and throw one stone into the well each time until the ten times is up and wash your(continues on next page)
- Collector
- P.J. Wholley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyoughtera, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Wholley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyoughtera, Co. Cork
