School: Cnoc an Iubhair (B.)
- Location:
- Kealid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0405, Page 243
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- I. A pain in a tooth with a hole in it.
Mix a pinch of pepper with a small bit of soot. Place this on the tooth. Soften a bit of tallow and place it over the tooth.
Corns: -
Mix bread soda and lamp oil and then rub it over your corns.
A Headache: -
Get the white of an egg, and spread it on a cloth and put it up to your forehead.
A bad pain in your stomach: -
Get a glass of Brandy and bathe your feet in Mustard water and go to bed quickly.
A pain in your ear: -
Boil a drop of castor oil, and soak a bit of wadding in it and put it into your ear.
Calves having the white scour: -(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Marron
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 11
- Informant
- Mrs Foran
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Gortdromagownagh, Co. Kerry
