School: An Tulach Mór (roll number 11047)
- Location:
- Tullamore, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Gearóid Mac Piarais
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- (continued from previous page)83. A cure for a pain in your ear is to wet a piece of cotton wool in camphorated oil and put it into your ear and the pain would go away.
84. A cure for a pain in your back is to rub Sloan's liniment to it and the pain would be gone.
85. A cure for a crick in your neck is to tie a rib of straw out of a child's cradle around it and it would go away.
- 86. If you get cut leave a dog lick it and it gets better.
87. When people kill a hen or a duck for St. Martin's day they keep the blood. When the blood gets solid it is put into a cloth and put up inside the(continues on next page)
