School: Coillte Craobhacha, Drumlish (roll number 15108)
- Location:
- Kiltycreevagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: S. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0758, Page 413
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- (continued from previous page)unsalted butter mixed with chopped garlic under a stone where there would be no one passing and while it would be withering the warts would be going. He makes this cure on Mondays and thursday & you have to have it rubbed to the warts and buried before the sun would set
- The old people used to cure toothache by burning paper sugarbay and by letting the smoke come into their mouths. Mrs Heaney Creelaughter has the cure of the strain the ringworm and the hearthache. The reason she has the cure of the ringworm is because she was the seventh consecutive daughter in the family. She makes the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Cassidy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinamuck, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Thomas Cassidy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 55
- Address
- Ballinamuck, Co. Longford
