School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 219
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- XML “Local Cures - Fallen Breastbone”
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- (continued from previous page)and was the burst well.
- a sprained ankle:
The way to cure a sprained ankle is to get bog moss and boil it in water. When it is boiled it is taken up and the water of it is used to was the ankle. Then the tight band is tied round the ankle. - Collector
- Celia Dalton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
- Pains in your limbs: To rub eels grease on your limbs is a cure for pains.
- Fallen breast bone:
A man named James Leavy, Ballydaly, Tullamore, can take it up with the aid of a tumbler and a lighted candle. - Proud flesh: The rind of butter-milk which rests on the churn.
- Bad stomach: To cure a bad stomach people used swallow live frogs.
- Sore chest: Sheeps wool used be got and lard used be rendered and put on the wool. Then it used be put on childrens chest for a week or so, then taken off.
