School: Leath-bhaile
- Location:
- Levally, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Maoldhomhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0018, Page 284
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- (continued from previous page)ringworm about forty years ago. He was the seventh son of that family. There is a quack called Eddie Gilmore in Dunmore who is able to cure cow-pock.
A sore-throat is cured by putting heated salt or roasted potatoes broken up into a woolen stocking and putting it against the throat.
A pain in the ear is cured by putting a drop of castor oil and a little piece of cotton wool into the ear. A piece of white bacon steeped in hot water is good for a sore on which there is a scab because it softens the scab and the sore heals up quickly.
- Collector
- Domhnall Pléamonn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cortoon, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Domhnall Pléamonn
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
