School: An Mhainistir i gCill Chiaráin
- Location:
- Kilkerrin, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An Bráthair Féidhlim Ó hAlmhain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0080, Page 236
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- (continued from previous page)For a stitch in the back or side: Bandage a warm cabbage leaf on the sore part.
Ear ache: Warm olive oil.
Broken blister: The white of an egg and as much flour as will make a stiff paste and cover the blister with it & leave it on till it falls off.
Toothache: Soot.
Bad sore: A dog to lick it.
Sty on the eye: Pull ten gooseberry thorns three successive Thursdays and make the sign of the Cross on the sty with nine of them and not to use the tenth.
Chin-Cough: To give a pint of milk to a ferrit & to drink the milk the ferrit leaves after him.
Chin-Cough: Drink the wine left in the cruet after mass.
Boils: Mix soap and sugar according to the size of the boil. Boil the soap & sugar for a minute, put it on a white cloth and apply.
- Collector
- Larry Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowntober East, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mary Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Carrowntober East, Co. Galway
