School: Na Tearmoinn (B.) (roll number 8931)
- Location:
- Tarmon East, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cathaláin
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- (continued from previous page)For a pain in your ear was olive oil.
They used warm bran for a sore throat.
And they used use ferrets leavings for a Chin Cough.
- In the olden times there was only very little sickness. There was no such things as doctors or Nurses but handy men and women. The people in the olden times made up their own medecene. My father or mother do not know what cures were made to cure people in olden times or I never heard of any of them.
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- Collector
- John Culhane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tarmon West, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Lizzie Culhane
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Tarmon West, Co. Kerry
