School: Móin Ruadh, Knocktopher

Location:
Moanroe Commons, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Donncha Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0849, Page 319

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    To stop bleeding
    1. There is a prayer to be said that would stop it.
    2. To put a key at the back of your neck.
    3. To get a cobweb and leave it on it.
    Burns
    1. To rub with the white of an egg.
    2. To wash the burn with butter-milk.
    3. To rub bread soda to it.
    4. Get pound of hemlock and make a poultice for it.
    5. Bathe them in the well at "Leach an Scail"
    6. To lick a frog and after that your tongue would be a cure for a burn.
    For a sting of a bee.
    1. Rub blue to the sting.
    For a broken leg
    Comefree and marshmallows pounded together.
    For a pain in the back
    1. To drink sulphur and new milk
    2. to put brown paper on the back and heat a iron and iron the back as quickly as possible.
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