School: Alt Achadh Doire (roll number 15474)
- Location:
- Altaghaderry, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig L. Mac Diarmada
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- A cure for toothache is a smoke of a pipe or to hold cold water in it.A cure for a sty on the eye is to jag it with a jag of a goosberry bush or wash it with black tea.A cure for ring worm is a dog's lick.A cure for warts is to rub them with washing soda every day or wash your hands in forge water.
- Collector
- Kathleen Mc Cool
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Garshooey, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Kathleen Mc Cool
- Gender
- Female
- When old people had sore ears they used to put caster oil in them and they would get better. If anybody was deaf in olden times they used to go to holy well to get cured.(continues on next page)