School: Baile Droichid, Cathair Dún Iascaigh (roll number 10533)
- Location:
- Ballydrehid, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Donnchadh Mac Craith
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- (continued from previous page)frighten the crows? A GunA riddle, a riddle, a farmers fiddle: Alive in the two ends and dead in the middle? A man ploughing.
- The cure for a toothache long ago was to put a tobacco leaf into it, another cure was bread soda and salt mixed in water and put into the tooth every night before going to bed.
The cure for the thrush is go to any person who never saw their father, they are able to cure it by breathing on it three times and do that three mornings in succession.
The cure for a heartburn is(continues on next page)- Collector
- Catherine Conrick
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr James Conrick
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Toureen, Co. Tipperary