School: Mungraid (B.) Luimneach (roll number 14409)
- Location:
- Mungairit, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Mrs B. Mulroy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0528, Page 030
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only some people have power to do this. This mostly done in the west of Ireland.
2. Old women always took a cup of strong tea for a headache and said it cured it.
3. Vinegar rubbed on the forehead was another cure. Toothache.
1. A cure for a sore tooth is to get mud off your boot (d) and bury it in the ground. After twelve months search the ground and if you fail to find it the tooth will pain you again and again.
2. A few pulls of the pipe or a chew of tobacco was a good cure for a toothache. Corns.
1. Ivy leaves crushed and put up to corns was an old cure. Hence the ivy corn cure sold in chemist shops at the present day.
2. To walk barefoot through the mud in the shallow part of a river.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Patrick Hartigan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Clár Aidhne, Co. Luimnigh
