School: Mainistir na Féile (B.) (roll number 16264)
- Location:
- Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: S. Ó Háinlí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0494, Page 145
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- (continued from previous page)and butter mixed and it is supposed to cure it.
The first many you see riding on a white horse ask him what would cure chin-cough, and whatever he says is supposed to cure it. For water in the brain, get leaves or needles of the pine tree and boil and pound them and put them to the back of the neck. For rash on children nettle porridge is used. Saffron tea was used for measles and it is said that it is cured.
- For a toothache:- put some mustard into hot water and make a paste of it, and put it on the wrist opposite to the side of you mouth in which you have the pain, and it is supposed to cure it.
For chincough:- ask the owner of a white horse or pony, and do what he tells you. For warts:- rub castor oil to the wart once every day.
For a toothache: rube oil of cloves to the sore gum or to dip a bid of wadding in iodine, and rub(continues on next page) - Collector
- Thomas Collins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mrs D. Collins
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick
