School: The Spa, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Spa, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Ml. Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0438, Page 345
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- (continued from previous page)If anyone got consumption they used to milk an ass, and drink the milk, It used to cure them.
- They had a cure for warts in old times. If you went to a stone where water lodged and dipped the warts in it, it would cure them.
- In old times, the cure for a tooth-ache was to mix ginger and soot together. This when rubbed to the tooth, would cure the pain.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Donal O' Reidy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloghaneleesh, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Reidy
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloghaneleesh, Co. Kerry
