School: Scairt (C.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4127)

Location:
Scart, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Mrs R. Eager
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    by filling a stocking with hay and putting it around the neck. A whitlow was cured by bread and water poultices.
    Some people made iodine from seaweed and used it for a cut.
    The seventh son or daughter is said to have a cure for a (sore-mouth) toothache. It is something like a bit of dough. The posthumous child is also said to have a cure for a sore-mouth, by breathing three times into the sufferer's mouth. I do not know of any certain day on which a child should have a cure.
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