School: Tigh Molaga (C.) (roll number 12457)
- Location:
- Timoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shíthigh
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- A sore throat
Put roasted potatoes in a stocking, and put the stocking round your neck when going to bed.nose bleeding
put a key to your back, and lie on the flat of your back; chew a cork; put a cord round your two small fingers, and make it as tight as possible; put a small bit of brown paper under your tongue; put a wet cloth on your spine.head-ache
a cup of strong tea; put a cloth soaked in vinegar round your forehead.sore-eyes
Make the sign of the cross on them with a wedding ring; bathe them with cold tea.ear-ache
wool wet with olive oil or whiskey; roast a small onion and put it into your ear.a marked face
rub the liver of a cow or sheep to it.a chest cold
turpentine; put butter or whiskey on a bit of brown paper and keep it up to your chest.a sprain
Let Spring water flow on the sprained part; goose-grease.corn
paraffin oil; wadding; salt water; put an(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Siobhán Ní Aileanáin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Catherine Hallinan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Timoleague, Co. Cork
