School: Ballyboy
- Location:
- Ballyboy, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Mrs Gath
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0808, Page 263
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- I knew a man who lived in Clare who once asked me did I ever hear that you would be cured of toothaches for 70 years if you threw one if your aching teeth into a graveyard.
"Well he said I heard it in my childhood but I forgot it until today and yesterday, When I was a boy I suffered badly one night from toothache and a strong man puled out my tooth and told me to throw it into the first grave yard I met - I did so and forgot the incident. I never knew what a toothache was until yesterday when I got one. The words of that man came back to me and I calculated the time. It is just 7- years ago for I was 12 then and I am now 82"
I have not heard that remark in Offaly. It must be peculiar to Clare.
