School: Castlecomer (B.) (roll number 1118)
- Location:
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: D. Ó Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0864, Page 273
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- When one is digging a grave and finds a skull in it if he puts the skull to his teeth he will never have a toothache again.
The milk of dandelion cures a wart.
If a cobweb is put to a cut it cures it.
When a person get a sprain and puts it in cold water immediately it will cure.
Goose grease cures cramps.
Bogbane cures rheumatism, but it can only be got in May, in a bog.
Chillblains can be cured with beef brine.
Pimples were cured by(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Close
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloneen, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mike Close
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Cloneen, Co. Kilkenny
