School: Killorglin (C.) (roll number 12833)
- Location:
- Killorglin, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Úna Nic Choluim
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0435, Page 164
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- 1. If you had a pain in your leg and rubbed goose-grease to it, it would cure you.
2. Chick-weed would bring down a swelled jaw.
3. Seal oil for a sprain.
4. A bit of tobacco put into milk and boiled is good for worms.
5. Burned leather with unsalted butter rubbed to it is good for making hair grow.
6. If you had rheumatics if you boiled cabbage until it gets yellow and rubbed to the place that is sore will cure it.
7. Boiled milk and onions is good for a cold.
8. If you had a swelled jaw put bran into a frying-pan and put it over the fire for a while; then put it into a cloth and put it up to your jaw - the swelling would go down.
- Collector
- Máire Ní Suilliobháin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Laharan, Co. Kerry
