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 210

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  1. Styes- [?] put cold tea leaves on it
    Warts-put washing soda on it or to bury a piece of meat you steal and when it gets rotten the wart will go.
    Toothaches- put a frog in you mouth.
    corns- put a Ivy leaves on it
    burns- sprinkle flour on it.
    Stings- rub a blue rag on it.
    headaches- rub cold water on you head.
    Earaches- boil an eel and put it's juice into your ear
    cuts- put cobwebs or butter on it.
    Once there lived the man named Jim Roche who always wore only one boot because one day he was in Galway and went in by mistake to a protestant church and the foot that first stepped into it he punished it by not wearing a boot on it.
    He went under a natural bridge which runs under "Gannons" in Camp St. and no- one else
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Joyce
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Oughterard, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mrs Callaghan
    Gender
    Female