School: Myshall (B.)
- Location:
- Myshall, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- I suppose nearly every district in Ireland has cures for different ailments. A very old cure lingers in this vicinity, it is, if you have a wart on your hand, if you rub costic on it, it will fade away by degrees. Other people say that if you have tonsils, to rub some kind of spirits on it, or rub iodine on it, they will cure it. It is also said that if there is a person sick, if they walk out under an animal it will cure them. When a person has a pain in his head, to apply [aspros???] is the best cure he could receive. The best cure we have for a person who has a pain in his back, is to apply some kind of a plaster. It is said that if you have a toothache to put a little iodine in it will cure it.
- Collector
- James Kavanagh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinacrea, Co. Carlow