School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 211
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- (6) A cure for a burn is to licked a DarkieLucker's belly three times and make the sign of the cross while licking it.
- (7) Bread soda is put on a burn to cure it.
(8) When a person gets a burn at first they should hold it near the fire for a couple of minutes and then put it in water. - (9) A cure for a burn is butter milk and sweet oil.
(10) Another cure for a burn is to rub paraffin oil on it. - (1) A cure for a headache is to bathe your forehead in cold water.
(2) Another cure is to drink a cup of very strong tea.
(3) It is also a good thing to drink a cup of hot water - (4) There is a headache stone in Mr. Hodgen's field in Rahugh, Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath. There is a little hole down in the stone and the people put their heads down in the hole and say prayers. They have to go three times before they get cured.
- Collector
- Celia Dalton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Thomas Dalton
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
- (5) If anyone has a headache they should(continues on next page)
