School: Cill Beathach (roll number 16807)

Location:
Kilbaha Middle, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Ceallacháin
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    Black-tea if rubbed to sore eyes, would cure them.

    Black-tea if rubbed to sore eyes, would cure them.
    A spit if put under a stone for a pain in the side;
    If a child had the chin-cough and if a person met a man with a white horse and say to him, "Man of the white horse what would cure the Chin-Cough", and whatever the person would say, that would cure the child.
    Three drops of a blessed candle is dropped into the ear for a pain in it.
    Parrifin oil if drunk for lumps in the
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. sore eyes (~94)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Shine
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    John C. Shine
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male