School: Ballyhahill (B.), Glin (roll number 10685)
- Location:
- Ballyhahill, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Maoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0482, Page 164
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- Backache is cured by getting a hot poultice of meal or ham and apply to the back.
Trawlick is cured by getting a piece of cord and tying it around your wrist and the trawlick will leave very quickly.
Earache is cured by heating a reaping hook when thoroughly hot lay it over your ear get a drop of water and let it flow from the reaping hook in to your ear.
Warts are cured by getting a stone and rubbing it to the wart and putting the stone into a parcel and the one that will get the parcel will take the wart.
Styes are cured by rubbing you fasting spit to it and it would be cured after a few days.
Toothache is cured by putting salt in to the tooth.
A heart burn is cured by bread soda. If you got cold in the chest iodine will cure it.
Chin - cough is cured by stopping a man with a white horse asking him for a cure and whatever he suggests it will cure the person that was caling with it.
Chilblains are cured by making a hole in a turnip and putting salt into it and placing the foot on it.
When a person gets a headache he ties a wet cloth around his forehead.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pat Quinlivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Finnoo, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Pat Quinlivan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Finnoo, Co. Limerick
