School: An Clochar, Roscrea
- Location:
- Roscrea, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Mháthair M. Ní Thuathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0549, Page 031
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- Long ago the old people used grease off the axle of a common car on the ring-worm to cure it.For a toothache they smoked a pipe to help to draw the water from the tooth and they used to stop the pain.For a wart they used to make the sign of the cross on the wart three times with a straw and then it was buried, and when the straw would rot the wart would be cured.They used bread soda for a cure for a burn.For whooping cough they gave a loaf of bread(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggy Saunders
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs J. Brophy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 50