School: Áth Treasna (C.)
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Cheallacháin
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- There are several local cures for diseases. Pepper is a very good cure for tooth-aches. Soot and salt put in to the sore tooth cures it. Put a live frog into your mouth to cure a tooth-ache. If the seventh generation of blacksmiths makes a nail any person who has the nail will never get a toothache. Boiling of an oak leaf and washing your mouth in the water in which it was boiled is a cure for a tooth-ache. Tobacco is used for curing a pain in the tooth. The Trinity Well water is a cure for tooth-aches. In a farm(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen O' Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr W. Quinlen
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Newmarket, Co. Cork