School: Cill Mhíde (C.), Caisleán Nua (roll number 7959)
- Location:
- Kilmeedy, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Bhraonáin
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- The people who lived long ago had many cures and old sayings about diseases, and often some of them proved successful.
A cure for warts is, if you found an unknown stream in the hollow of a rock to wash them in the water and they disappear gradually.
Boils may be cured by burying a piece of bacon in manure, and while the meat is decaying the boils will be going away.
The old people cured tooth-aches by smoking a pipe or piercing the teeth with pepper.- Collector
- Nancy Enright
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmeedy, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Thomas Cotter
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Kilmeedy, Co. Limerick