School: Nuadhan (Noan), Dúrlas Éile
- Location:
- Noan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Ghormáin
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- To put boiling water on oaten meal and to drink the water of it, is good for a cough.
To sniff up salt, cures a cold in the head.
For a sore throat, wash your throat with salt and water. Onions boiled and eaten are good for a cold.
For a pain in your hip,
Out a silk thread around your hip, and as the thread wears the pain goes. The cure for a wart,
Rub a snail to it, and put the snail on a white thorn bush, and when the snail withers the wart goes. A cure for cuts
Put a clean cobweb over the cut. The cure for whooping cough
Put the person who has the whooping cough three times under a grey horse's legs, and the cough(continues on next page)- Collector
- Nellie Shaw
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Grallagh, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Shaw
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Grallagh, Co. Tipperary