School: Inis (B.) (roll number 15042)
- Location:
- Ennis, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Fionnmhacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0610, Page 004
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- (continued from previous page)And water and then put them to the boil.
Whittles. The cure for whittles is to dip your finger into potato water after it has been strained.
Colds. Boil milk and pepper and drink it.
Burns. Rub butter and flour to the burns.
Sore Eyes. Get a snail and kill it then rub it to your eyes.
Baldness. Rub an onion to your head. Another cure for this to get a rabbit skin and put it round your head.
Ring worm. Write your name around the ring worm with ink.
Craos-ghalar Get a person who never saw their father and let them breath into the persons mouth three times.
Sore-ears. Put a grain of mustard into the ears.
Bronchitis. Put a piece of brown paper on the persons chest.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cyril Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cornmarket Street, Co. Clare
- Collector
- Martin Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumbiggle Road, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Martin Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Turnpike Road, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs Annie Tierney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Old Mill Street, Co. Clare
