School: Moydow, Longphort (roll number 11971)
- Location:
- Moydow, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Seán Mac Coiligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0754, Page 227
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- The people of long ago had more cures than the people of now-a-day's.
There is a very good cure for ringworm.
It is some kind of an ointment made by James McGarry Cloughan Moydow Co Longford.
He cannot tell anyone what he makes this ointment from.
The cure they had for a burn was, they used to get foxes tongue and cut it up and fry it on a pan with lard.
When it would be fried they would squeeze the foxes tongue into a jar and they would rub it on a burn and in a few days the burn would be better.
There is a cure for wart's
If you rub the top of a wet match for nine morning's(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Finn
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Cloonker, Co. Longford
