School: Uachtar Árd (roll number 4786)
- Location:
- Oughterard, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr M. S. Iognáid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0065, Page 207
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- (continued from previous page)would find in a hole in a rock but not to be looking for the rock
Styes: To rub it with tea leaves, or to wash your eyes with cold tea
Sore throat: To put your left stocking to your throat or else to fill a stocking with hot bran and put it to your throat
Burns: Seal oil bread soda or flour to put on a burn
Sting: To rub a blue rag on the sting will cure it
Toothache: To put a frog in your mouth or to lick a black lizard or to put a needle in the fire until it would be red and then to put into your tooth and it would cure it.
- Instead of going to doctors the old people had certain cures for diseases and pains. It is said if a person had a toothache it would be good to put(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Darcy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Maghera More, Co. Galway
