School: An Tulach Mór (roll number 11047)
- Location:
- Tullamore, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Gearóid Mac Piarais
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0399, Page 147
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- 78. If you killed a fox and if you kept his tongue and if you got a thorn in your leg or hand to rub the tongue to it it would bring out the thorn.
79. A cure for a cough is to pick holly leaves and boil them in milk and drink it and it would go away.
80. A cure for a pain in your head is to drink strong tea and it would get better.
81. A cure for a cow's sore eye is to burn the bark of elder and ground sugar and put it up to it.
- 82. A cure for a burn is to mix sweet oil and lime water together and put them up to it and it is sure to be cured.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Breathnach
- Gender
- Female
