School: Tashinny, Colehill (roll number 10223)
- Location:
- Taghshinny, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Annie Trimble
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- If you had sore eyes they say to get tea leaves and bathe your eyes and they will get better.
There is another cure for a pain in your ear, it is said if you dip a piece of cotton wool in the sap of an ash stick that is in the fire, put it into the ear and pain will go.
If you get a sting of a nettle they say to get a docken and put it where you got the sting and say "docken, docken cure the sting of a nettle and the sting will go.
There is a cure for boils, if you boil oil-cake in a pot and let it cool then put it on, the boils will go.
For a cold we often boil butter-milk with sugar and drink it.
If you had a pain in your stomach people say to lie across a stool.
- Collector
- Jennie Mc Cormack
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Taghshinny, Co. Longford
- This is a cure for the whooping cough, get the first cut of white bread and the last one which two of the one name who were(continues on next page)
