School: Rennies, Cionn tSáile (roll number 4443)
- Location:
- Ballynalougha, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Hailín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0321, Page 030
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- Long ago people had a lot of cures for toothaches. This is one of them. Early in the morning before the sun got up they used to go to a grave-yard. They used to go to a flowing river. They threw the bite of grass into the river. They should do that for three mornings.
More people crept under a wild colt's legs. Herbs were used too.
They put whiskey into the bad tooth.
- Long ago the old people had many cures. "If a young baby or an old person had "Creas galar" they would get a gander and put his beak into the person's mouth and after a few days the Creas galar is gone." The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Kiely
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynalougha, Co. Cork
