School: Tamhnach, Inis
- Location:
- Toonagh, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Proinnsias Gordún
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- Cold: Smoke is a cure for a cold.
They say that when tea leaves are withered and when they are boiled that they are good for cattle. In old times the people had a good cure that was to give soot to cattle.
Dandelion is good for decline in people.
Garlic is a cure for T.B.
Celery is a cure for rhumatism.
Onions are good to make you sleep. - Collector
- Mary Roughan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fountain Cross, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs D. Roughan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 41
- Address
- Fountain Cross, Co. Clare
- Cough ÷ If you had a cough hold a frog up to your mouth and you will be cured.Warts ÷ If you had warts you would be cured by putting on or rubbing washing soda to them.Chillblains ÷ If you had chillblains on your legs(continues on next page)
