School: Coill Chláir (roll number 14276)

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   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.

   

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2. Local Cures

   

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   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.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Annie Curran

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drumcromaun, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Thomas Floyed

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   72

   Address

   Drumcromaun, Co. Leitrim