School: Killasona, Granard (roll number 14300)
- Location:
- Killasona, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ghaithbheacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0764, Page 434
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- (continued from previous page)cut will cure it and also turpentine.
A few leaves of water-cress eaten fasting purifies the blood.
It is said if a person with a toothache smokes a pipe that is got at a wake it will cure it.
The cure for ring worm is to rub iodine in a ring round it.
The cure for corn is to boil ivy lead and to rub it to the corn.
It is said that laurel leaves when they are fried in grease is a cure for a burn and also a chilblain.
It is said that the cure for a rash is to rub a gold ring on the spot where it is for nine mornings or if a rash is on your face to hold a coal to the spot where it is.
The cure for a toothache is if a person die in the family to pull a tooth out of the dead person's mouth and rub it to the tooth where the pain is and it would never come again.(continues on next page)
