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School: Scartaglen (roll number 8184)

Location:
Scartaglin, Co. Kerry
Teachers:
D. Ó Dubháin E. Ó Murchú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0448, Page 100

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    Local Cures
    Toothache.
    To fill the tooth with tobacco. To heat flour and put it into a cloth and tie it around your head.
    Sore eyes.
    To wash them with cold tea. To rub a gold ring to them.
    There are holy wells; the water of them are supposed to cure sore eyes. Weathers' well, and Ballavourna well.
    Wooping cough.
    To give milk to a ferret and what he would leave after him there is a cure in it for whooping cough. There is a cure in a ganders' breath for whooping cough also.
    Boils.
    Slánslaw. Sloap and sugar.
    Poultices.
    A poultice is made out of a roasted potatoe. A loaf of bread when the barn is taken out of it. Linseed meal.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Marcus Kearney
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Michael Kearney
    Gender
    Male