School: Mathghamhnach (C.) (roll number 11423)
- Location:
- Mahoonagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Bríd Nic Arailt
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- Food left after a ferret cures the whooping cough but the ferret usually dies. If he does not, the person having the whooping-cough does.
Styes are cured by making the Sign of the Cross on the sore eyes with a gold wedding ring for nine mornings in succession.
- Collector
- Kathleen Creedon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mahoonagh, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mrs Jn. Creedon
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 93
- Address
- Arddrine, Co. Limerick
- To cure burns people boiled the bark of the elder tree, and mixed the juice with cream. This ointment was applied to the burn
A mixture of soot and salt put into the hole in a painful tooth cured the ache.
Warts were got rid of by filling a paper bag with stones and leaving it on the roadside. When another comer would pick up the bag of stones, the afflicted person would be(continues on next page)
