School: Drumacoon (roll number 351)
- Location:
- Drumacoon, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Ó Grianáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0950, Page 351
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- It is said that if anyone takes a sty on their eye if they go to a girl she will get nine thorns and face them towards it one after another and it is supposed to be cured.When anyone gets a bad cut there is a plant called slanlus is sure to stop it from bleeding.When you take a wart if you find a black snail without looking for it rub it on the wart then throw it on a blackthorn bush and it is supposed to fade away and if it fades away so will the wart.There is a well at Stonebridge called the jaundice well. If you have the jaundice go to this well, drink some of the water, leave a bit of your clothes behind and you are supposed to be cured.It is said that if anyone takes the mumps they ought to be brought to a stream running south and made drink some of the water. Everyone goes to this stream to be cured.If you get a burn on your hand put flour on it and it will cure it.If a person had a boil and he puts boiling water in a bottle and then empties it out and holds the neck of the bottle to the boil it will cure it.Dockin seed when boiled and taken fasting will cure the chin-cough.
