School: Béal Átha Gabhann (Silvermines), Nenagh (roll number 15696)
- Location:
- Silvermines, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0537, Page 209
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- Chin-cough - To meet a man riding a grey horse, to ask him what would cure it, and whtever he sya, to give it to that person who has the chin-cough.
Pain - If a child had a pain, to go out, and the first little hole you find with clean water to give three drops to the child and it would cure her.
Cut - After getting a cut to put a clean cobweb to it to stop the bleed.
Warts - To cut a potato, scoop out a holde, put in salt and rub it to the wart, for a few days, until it brings out the warts.
Chilblanes - To burn corks, and mix the ashes with fresh lard and salt, and put it to them every second night.
Sore feet - Put a lump of iron in cold water and wash the feet in it.
- Collector
- Peggie Stapleton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cooleen, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs John Stapleton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 81
- Address
- Cooleen, Co. Tipperary
