School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 212
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- XML “Local Cures - Cancer”
- XML “Local Cures - Stomach-Ache”
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- (continued from previous page)(5) drink a cup of hot milk and it will remove the pain immediately
- (6) To cure a headache people used drink black tea without milk or sugar
- (7) Long ago people used drink scorna [?]. It is made like tea. It has a wide leaf like privette leaf
- There is a family in croghan, Daingeam named Gilligan who cures caner. This cure was handed down from generation to generation. People come from all over Ireland and even from foreign countries to get cured. The cure is ointment and there is a secret in this ointment which i known to none but themselves. Doctors would give them any money for the secret but they would not sell it
- Collector
- Thomas Scally
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Joseph Scally
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly
- (1)People used to swallow live frogs as a cure for a stomachache. Raw eggs are also a cure for a stomachache.
