School: Loughill, Longford
- Location:
- Laughil, Co. Longford
- Teacher: P. Ó Corcora
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0768, Page 308
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- Toothache - A tooth pulled by your own teeth out of skull.
Sickness - There is a well of St Brigid's in Ardagh and if you tie a rag on a bush beside it you will be cured as soon as the rag is withered.
For a cold - (1) Garlic eaten (2) hot buttermilk and sugar drank.
sores and thorns - (1) poultice of white bread (2) wax (3) a linseed poultice. (4) fat bacon applied to the affected part.
warts - (1) holy water rubbed on the wart nine mornings in succession fasting. (2) the juice of dandelion rubbed on
Sty- Nine gooseberry thorns to the stye and throw away the ninth one without pointing it.
The following have cures -
For burns - Mrs Green Oldtown Ardagh Co Longford
Miss Baxter Killen Longford.
ring worm - Patrick McGarry Moydow with ointment.
Mrs Thompson Drumloher Longford with a liquid mixture including Burdock.
- Collector
- Bernard Kane
- Gender
- Male
