School: Baile an Mhuilinn, An Droichead Nua (roll number 16654)
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: S.P. Ó Donnchadha
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- (continued from previous page)stomack for an ailment called "The Chin-cough".Another cure is to rub a sty with a gooseberry thorn nine times to cure it. It is said that if you climb an oak tree, it will cure a disease called Palsy.I got these cures from my neighbours. locally
Signed Joe Heffernan
Grange Hill
Newbridge
Co. Kildare
- The following cures are common in the locality. Many old people in this locality cure chilblains with a raw onion. A raw onion will also cure a cold, and scalded buttermilk will cure a cold also. If you rub a snail to a wart and then hang the snail on a bush, the next morning the wart will be cured. If you point a gooseberry thorn to a stye on the eye, the next morning the stye will be gone. If you rub washing soda on a wart three times every day, the wart will disappear. Castor oil will cure a wart.I got this information from my father
- Collector
- Teresa Gorry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Hawkfield, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Mr Michael Gorry
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Hawkfield, Co. Kildare
