School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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- (1) To cure a tooth ache a bit of bread soda put into the hole of the tooth will cure it.
- Collector
- Sheila Boland
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Informant
- Daniel Boland
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Wood of O, Co. Offaly
- (2) How to cure a toothache was to burn tobaccco on a griddle and put in your tooth then.
(3) There was another cure which priests used give which was to promise to give up doing certain things on Sunday, such as baking bread or for a man not to shave on a Sunday.
(4) The third cure was to put burned alum in your tooth; it would run all the water out of the tooth.- Collector
- Brigid Egan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Informant
- Thomas Egan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Ballycommon, Co. Offaly
- (5) When seven sons are born in succession the last son has the cure of a toothache.
- Collector
- Rose Bracken
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mary Bracken
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
- (6) a cure for a toothache is to say three Our Fathers and three Hail Mary's at the rising of the Host at Mass
(7) Red pepper pods put in water and then a mouthful of it take will cure a toothache
(8) If a person pulls a tooth out of a dead person's mouth with their teeth they will never have a toothache- Collector
- Mary Kennarney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Patrick Kennarney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Wood of O, Co. Offaly
- (9) The cure for a toothache long ago was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Boland
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Wood of O, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Daniel Boland
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Wood of O, Co. Offaly