School: Lios Tuathail Buachaillí

Location:: Listowel, Co. Kerry
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1126, Page 408

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pull them out and a small drop of sweet oil and they were healed The cure for cold or bad cough. They used to wheat into a kettle and boil it and they used put a lb. of brown sugar into the wheat and drink the water and that was the old cure for the cough and it used cure it. The cure the used have in Beal for chilblains. They used go to the salt water U for three days and they used be cured.
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The cure for a pain in the teeth is to get a leaf off of an elder tree and put it into that tooth that would be paining you and that would cure it.
The cure for a sore throat is this

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