School: Cill Rónáin
- Location:
- Keadew, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Eochaidhín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0230, Page 304
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- The cure for a toothache is to get a leaf of corp house tobacco that remains after the corpse and put it in the tooth that is bad.
The cure for measles is to get a few nettles and boil them take the water of them and drink it.
Pull the dandelion wash it clean and boil it, when well boiled lift it from the fire and strain it, put the water of it in a bottle and cork it well. Take one glass every morning fasting and that is the cure for a weak heart. The cure for ring-worm is put the worm in the child's hand until it dies only the 7th son(continues on next page)
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- James Noone
- Gender
- Male
