School: Tulach Cruinn, Inis (roll number 7708)

Location:
Tullycreen Upper, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Micheál Ó Maranáin
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    Warts=Fill a match-box with stones and throw it anywhere Who ever picks it up will take them.(2)Grind chalk and steep it in water for a couple of days and rub it to them.
    Heart-Disease:-Boiled dandelion water.
    Consumption:-Drink water from the barony bounds
    Toothache:-Put a red nettle into it or pepper.
    Corns=Steep an ivy leaf in vinegar,and put the leaf to the corn.
    Craos-Galar:-Go to the man that never saw his father for three mornings in succession whilst fasting.Let him blow his breath three times into your mouth saying In the Name of the Father etc.
    Whooping -cough:-(1)Give milk to a ferret and when he has a little drank give the rest to the child .(2)Boil a stone ,which you find in a sod of turf ,in milk.Give milk to the sick person.
    Collected from =Various People.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
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    Irish
    English