School: Scoil na mBráthar, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 16725)
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Mocháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0565, Page 116
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- A cure for a boil is get some groundsel and cut it up into a small pieces. Then put it into a small saucepan and ass a small drop of water. Leave it boil for a quarter of an hour then put it on a bandage and put it to the boil. It will cure it in a few days.
A cure for corns is to get an ivy leaf and put it to the corn it will draw out then wind a bandage round the leaf and it will draw out the corn in a few days.
A cure for a sting is rub blue to the sting. It will be cured in a day.
A cure for a headache is to drink a cup of strong tea and it will cure it in a few hours
A cure for a toothache is to drop a few drops of oil of cloves into the tooth and it will be cured in a few hours.
A cure for ringworm is to get the ashes of a pipe and put it on the ringworm and it will be cured in a few weeks.
A cure for the rash is to get sulpher ointment and rub it to the rash and it will be cured in a few weeks.
- Informant
- Mrs Organ
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
