School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 208
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- XML “Local Cures - Ringworm”
- XML “Local Cures - A Sting”
- XML “Local Cures - A Cut”
- XML “Local Cures - A Cut”
- XML “Local Cures - A Cut”
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- (5) A way to cure ringworm is to rub it with washing soda
(6) The one that has ringworm must say "The Apostles Creed".
(7) There is a person named Mrs Malone, Kilclonfert, Daingean, Offaly, who makes up ointment for ringworm.
- A Sting. A sting of a bee or wasp could be cured by rubbing the sting with blue. To cure a sting of a nettle it should be rubbed with a dock leaf.
- If you get a cut bathe it in hot potatoes water and then no poison can get in.
2. To cure a cut people used boiling water and bread soda - 3. A cure for a cut is to get a spiders web and spread it over the cut
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- Collector
- Thomas Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Richard Dunne
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly
