School: Ballinacree (B.) (roll number 13965)
- Location:
- Ballynacree, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Pádraic Ó Connachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 146
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- A good cure for toothache is to mix soot and lime and salt and rub it on the tooth or put it in the hole if there be a hole in the tooth.
- In older times people used to put cotton wool and turpentine. Also people used to put a horse nail under the aching tooth and root it out.
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- Oilibhéar O h-Iolracháin
- Gender
- Male
- Drive a horse nail in an ash tree and the toothache will die.
