School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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- (3) a cure for rheumatism is to lie under a tombstone at night by yourself and go there for three night and then the rheumatism will be cured.
- Collector
- Celia Dalton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Thomas Dalton
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
- (4) Rheumatism is cured by rubbing Sloans Liniment on the place where it is.
- (1) To cure a heart burn put a tea-spoonful of bread soda in half a cup of buttermilk and drink it.
(2) Another way is to eat a raw potato - (3) Take three drops of water off a cows pan-cake and put in half a glass of water and it it cures immediately.
- Kidney trouble: Eat an herb called kidney weed
(2) Water grass cooked and eaten. - Piles: Boil cockle root and then drink the water
