School: Kilmurry

Location:
Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
A. de Búrca
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  3. XML “Local Cures - Burns”
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  5. XML “Local Cures - Burns”
  6. XML “Local Cures - Headache”
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  1. (7) Bread soda is put on a burn to cure it.
    (8) When a person gets a burn at first they should hold it near the fire for a couple of minutes and then put it in water.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. (9) A cure for a burn is butter milk and sweet oil.
    (10) Another cure for a burn is to rub paraffin oil on it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. burns (~116)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Kennarney
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Wood of O, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Patrick Kennarney
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    49
    Address
    Wood of O, Co. Offaly
  3. (1) A cure for a headache is to bathe your forehead in cold water.
    (2) Another cure is to drink a cup of very strong tea.
    (3) It is also a good thing to drink a cup of hot water
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  4. (4) There is a headache stone in Mr. Hodgen's field in Rahugh, Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath. There is a little hole down in the stone and the people put their heads down in the hole and say prayers. They have to go three times before they get cured.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.