School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 208
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- (5) A way to cure ringworm is to rub it with washing soda
(6) The one that has ringworm must say "The Apostles Creed".
(7) There is a person named Mrs Malone, Kilclonfert, Daingean, Offaly, who makes up ointment for ringworm.
- A Sting. A sting of a bee or wasp could be cured by rubbing the sting with blue. To cure a sting of a nettle it should be rubbed with a dock leaf.
- If you get a cut bathe it in hot potatoes water and then no poison can get in.
2. To cure a cut people used boiling water and bread soda - Collector
- Sheila Boland
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Wood of O, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Daniel Boland
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Wood of O, Co. Offaly
- 3. A cure for a cut is to get a spiders web and spread it over the cut
- 4. If one got a cut of a knife or glass there is a weed growing which is called the "healing leaf" if it is kept to the cut long.(continues on next page)
