School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Cill Áirne
- Location:
- Cill Airne, Co. Chiarraí
- Teachers: An tSr. M. Déaglán An tSr. Marie Thérèse
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0456, Page 237
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- (continued from previous page)person suffering from them. Sometimes fat or the grease of a goose was rubbed to the warts.
4. Baldness:- To rub an onion to the bald part of the head. Another cure was to boil "box-plant" and to rub the juice of it to the head.
5. Pains in the bones:- People believed that these pains could be cured by visiting a holy well at midnight. Another cure was to go through a window three times a day. They believed that this exercised the bones and so the pain was cured.
6. Blood Pressure:- To boil nettles an drink the juice.
7. Bleeding:- People put cobwebs round the cut and in this way they stopped the bleeding.
8. Boils:- Mix soaps and sugar and put that plaster to the boils. Dock-leaves were used for drawing and breaking boils.
9. Cuts:- To cure cuts the old people used slauness and unsalted butter.
10. Ashma:- People made a tonic for themselves by mixing 2 ozs. of the best honey with(continues on next page)
