School: Monksland (C.) (roll number 2792)
- Location:
- Monksland, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Nic Oireachtaigh
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- Local cures.Here is the cure for a head-ache. YUou put vinegar on a piece of brown paper and place it on the forehead. Here is the cure for a cold. You put a few tea spoonfuls of black-currant and a cup of boiling water and the juice of a lemon.Here is the cure for a bealing finger. You put a piece of fat bacon on the finger going to bed at night and it eases the pain.Here is the cure for the toothache. You bleed the gum with a rusty nail and then you hammer the nail into the trunk of a tree.Here is the cure for a scal. You get some lime and the white of a egg and a little sweet oil and mix all together, or some people use carron oil.Here is the cure for a cold on the chest. You heat some olive oil and put a little mustard through it and paint the chest with it. Here is the cure for ear-ache. You put hot olive oil on a piece of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Imelda Donnelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Crossaleeny, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Donnelly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Crossaleeny, Co. Louth