School: Scartaglen (roll number 8184)
- Location:
- Scartaglin, Co. Kerry
- Teachers: D. Ó Dubháin E. Ó Murchú
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- Local CuresToothache.
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.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Marcus Kearney
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Michael Kearney
- Gender
- Male