School: Connach, Inis Céin (roll number 10557)
- Location:
- Connagh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire Ní Ghealbháin
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- (continued from previous page)applied to the feet of the patient while hot is a cure for fever.
Milk left by a ferrit cures whooping cough.
There is a holy well in a rock in Inchacurka and the sign of the feet of the Blessed Lady and her son are on the rock. If you washed your tooth in it, it will cure a toothache.
For ring worm rub a dock-leaf to the affected parts.
The juice of dandelions was a cure for rheumatism.
If you suck the juice out of the wild woodbine it will cure a sore mouth.
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- Collector
- Maighréad Ní Laoghaire
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Dromfeagh, Co. Cork