School: Ballinacree (C.) (roll number 13966)
- Location:
- Ballynacree, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Eibhlín Bean Uí Chonnachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 408
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- 1. Long ago when there were not so many doctors as there are now, people had cures of their own for many diseases.
2. One of the cures for a headache was to soak brown paper in vinegar and bandage your head with with it.
3. Roast salt put in a stocking and tied it around the nick was a cure for sore throat.
4. A herb known as the plantain leaf is a very good cure for cuts.
5. Warts burned a hazel stick is very successful.
6 Heartburn. A teaspoonful of bread soda taken in buttermilk gives relief.
- Collector
- Carmel Ní Bhradag
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Brady
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Rathmea, Co. Meath
