School: Beárna, Galbally (roll number 12655)
- Location:
- Barna, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: C. Ó Máirtín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0512, Page 466
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- Chincough: The milk ferrets have after drinking is good for chincough.
Chincough: Boil a mouse in milk and give it to the person that have the chincough and it will cure it.
Toothaches: Fill your mouth with cold water and turn your back to the fire and keep it in your mouth until it boils and the toothache is cured.
Toothaches: Put a frog into your mouth, and keep him in your mouth until he call three times and he will cure the toothache.
Warts: Put a snail to the warts and hang that snail up on a tree and when the warts go the snail goes.
Warts: If you put your hand onto a hole of water in a stone(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynamuddagh, Co. Limerick
