School: Coill Chláir (roll number 14276)
- Location:
- Kilclare, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Treasa Ní Oibeacáin
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- (continued from previous page)aching tooth twice daily for four days.
Cut.
A weed called "comfry" which grows on some turf banks is boiled and when it is soft is put to the cut which is healed in a day. Sometimes people tie a cobweb to a small cut and it heals in a day.
- Toothache
A good cure for a toothache is to rub a piece of mud off a priests grave on the persons face.
Toothache.
A good cure for a toothache is to make a promise to visit Lassar well near Keadue on the 8th of August and to perform station there. But if the promise s made the person must go.Broken skin and cuts.
An herb called "Buglas" is pounded up and mixed with unsalted butter is a good cure for cuts and gashes.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Annie Curran
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumcromaun, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Thomas Floyed
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Drumcromaun, Co. Leitrim
