School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 02_044
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For a treascollar if you had a treascollar in your neck or tongue a child that never saw his father could cure it by blowing three in the mouth.
For a sore throath -to put your left stocking your when going to bed and it would be cured in the morning.
For a burn to rub flour to it and it would not fester.
For a toothache mustard would kill the pain.
For a swollen leg to put goose grease to it.
For neuralgia ,to put pepper and whiskey in a clothe round the mouth(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chorra
- Other names
- Cáit Ní Chorra
- Katty Corry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Thomas Corry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
