School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Fethard (roll number 8903)
- Location:
- Fethard, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Sr M. Agatha
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- (continued from previous page)Cure for St.Anthony's Fire:
Boil down chicken-weed and rub it to the sores, it will cure them. Chilblains:
Heat an onion in the oven and then rub it to the chilblains. Haycoughs:
If one had the haycoughs let him drink out of the wrong side of the cup. - Cure for Kidney Trouble:
Boil switch grass and drink the water that it boiled in.
Warts:
Wash them in the water that the black smith cools his irons in.
To cure a Whitlow:
Put a poultice of oaten meal, half boiled to it.
To cure Boils:
Mix sugar and soap together(continues on next page)- Informant
- Mrs P. Fogarty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Garrinch, Co. Tipperary