School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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- 1. Squirt a dop of cow's milk from the udder of the cow into the eye.
2. Prod the sty with three gooseberry thorns for nine mornings. The three thorns must be put away in a piece of paper.
- Collector
- Sheila Boland
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Wood of O, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Dan Boland
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Wood of O, Co. Offaly
- 3. A cure for a sty in your eye is to rub cold tea on it.
- 4. To cure a sty in the eye it is good to get a branch of a gooseberry bush with nine thorns on it and to prod the eye once with each of the nine thorns.
- 5. Eye lotion and wash them in black cold tea.
- 1. Rub paraffin oil on the stocking over the place.
- 2.A cure for chillblains is to get near the fire with paraffin and sap it into them.
- 3. Chillblains are cured with onions. the juice of the onion is rubbed on the chillblains.
