School: Kildraught (2)
- Location:
- Celbridge, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: E. Ní Armhultaigh
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- Mrs Hollingsworth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Celbridge, Co. Kildare
- 2. Light a piece of brown paper blow out sniff smoke with nose (Mrs. Hollingsworth bellridge)
- 3. Put a potato in half rub the half on cheek hide it under stone (Mrs Bracken bellridge heard in Co. Down)
- 4. Essence of cloves put in the tooth (Mrs. Anderson bastletown)
- 5. Put iodine on the tooth (ditto)
- 6. Get a piece of tobacco and put it in the hole of the tooth (Mrs Cochrane bellridge heard in Co. Cavan)
- 7. Mix salt and mustard together and put it on the tooth (Mrs Hollingsworth bellridge heard in Co Wicklow)
- 8. Put a drop of jeyes fluid in the tooth (Mr Doyle bellridge)
9. Hold whiskey in your mouth (Mrs Wing bellridge) - 10. To hold your jaw to the fire (Mrs Smyth bellridge heard in Co. Wicklow from her mother 30 years of age.)
11. Get a piece of brown paper and put pepper on it and put into the tooth (Mr Cochrane)
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