School: Cluain Fhada (C.) (roll number 15558)
- Location:
- Cloonfad, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mrs. Flood
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- (continued from previous page)Toothache:- To put a bit of tobacco down in your tooth.
Ireac:- To wash it with oat meal.
Traileac:- To tie a silk band around your wrist. - Chin-Cough- To go to three houses where husband and wife bear the same name, whatever they would say should be given to the child.
Worms- To take turpentine for fifteen mornings.
Ring worms- To bathe them in water that flows between two counties.
Headache- Vinegar on brown paper.
Corns- Fried bacon.
Warts- To rub a snail on them and to leave the snail on a gooseberry bush until it withers and the warts will fade away.
Burn- Put soda or cream on the wound.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Teresa Noone
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gorteenacammadil, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Maria Fleming
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Gorteenacammadil, Co. Roscommon