School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 210
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- (continued from previous page)out the stone and poultice it with linseed meal.
- 1. Nine sips of water will cure it.
2. Another way is to hold your hand tightly on the pulse of your left hand.
3. Another way is to steal up on a person and give them a fright. - 4. Suck sugar and salt, or eat a piece of loaf bread.
5. Think of the last time you were at mass and dwell on the "Consecration."
6. Tickle the palm of the hand. - 1. To cure a burn there is an ointment made of lime and sweet oil to rub on the burn.
2. The white of an egg beaten into an ointment cures a burn.
3. A piece of mutton suet left on a burn also cures it. - 4. Burns are cured with limewater and sweet oil. They are mixed together and put on with a feather.
- Collector
- Thomas Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Richard Dunne
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly
- 5. Laurel leaves fried in hogs lard
