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School: Shinrone (C.)

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Shinrone, Co. Offaly
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Mary Mc Mahon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0819, Page 141

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    Local Cures
    It is said that if you had toothache a cure for it is that if you were digging a grave for a dead person and if you met a skull of another person which had been buried before that and if you pulled out a tooth out of the skull with your own tooth it is said you would never have a toothache after
    May Cosgrave Std 1V
    Corlanty
    I heard it from my father who heard it from his father who is dead 36 years.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Cosgrave
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Curralanty, Co. Offaly