School: Kildavin, Ferns
- Location:
- Kildavin, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Tadhg de Brí
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- (continued from previous page)Leave it in your mouth for a couple of minutes and you are supposed never to have a tooth - ache again.
- Toothache or Neuralgia that is when all the teeth are paining is very common.
Some cures for toothache are to boil some nettles and put them in a poultice on the tooth. To steep red flannel in hot water and wrap it around your head and tie a stocking around that.- Collector
- Eily Fennelly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr J. Hegarty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Occupation
- Clerk-labourer
- Address
- Kildavin, Co. Carlow
- Very often people get a headache. A cure for it is Glauber salts before your breakfast in the morning Another cure for it is vinegar and brown paper. Put the vinegar on the paper and put it around your head. There is another(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lillie Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr D. Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 61
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Cranemore, Co. Carlow