School: Island Parish
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Seán Ó Móráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0805, Page 338
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- (continued from previous page)and leave some little thing behind you near the well. If any person takes what you leave they will take the warts. Cures for a toothache.
Drink a cup of strong tea and dont eat any bread with it.Eat a piece of raw potato. This is also a cure for heart-burn.
Cures for a Sore-Throat.
When you are going to bed take off your left footed stocking and wear it around your neck during the night, or fill your stocking with warm salt and wear it around your neck.
Cures for A Sprained Ankle.
Get some of the oft moss that grows in the bog and tie it around it or pump cold water on it.
Cure for a Boil
Put steam in a bottle and put the bottle to the boil. The steam will take the badness out of it and it will soon wear away.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Connolly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballina, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Thomas Connolly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballina, Co. Offaly
