School: Caimthír (Camphire), Ceapach Chuinn (roll number 15129)
- Location:
- Camphire, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Nóra Bean Uí Chradóig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0636, Page 401
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- Tooth-aches:- Remedy. Long ago when people had tooth-aches they caught a frog and put it into the mouth. His head was put on the tooth and bitten. If it would screech three times, the tooth-ache would go.
Whooping Cough:- Remedy. The food left behind by a ferret would cure a whooping-cough. The food should be heated and taken. There is also another cure for the whooping-cough: Go along the road until you meet a man with a white horse, ask him what would cure whooping cough, He will say “Go under the horses legs”, and the whooping cough would go.
Holy Wells. “Tobar an Turuis” is a holy well. Many people used to come and pray around the well and pieces of cloth were hung on the tree near the well and the disease would go away.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Tomás Ó Núnáin
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Camphire, Co. Waterford
