School: Ballinacree (B.) (roll number 13965)
- Location:
- Ballynacree, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Pádraic Ó Connachtáin
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- XML “Cures - Toothache”
- XML “Cures- Turpentine”
- XML “Cures - Altar Dust”
- XML “Cures - Horse-Nail”
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- In older times people used to put cotton wool and turpentine. Also people used to put a horse nail under the aching tooth and root it out.
- Another cure for the toothache is to rub the dust of the altar on the tooth.
- Drive a horse nail in an ash tree and the toothache will die.