School: Ballynacargy (C.) (roll number 7893)
- Location:
- Ballynacarrigy, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Óda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 301
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- (continued from previous page)it by twisting your hair around a spoon. Then he twists the spoon and it lets a shot going back.
There is a priest buried in Templecross. His name is Fr Cantwell he was parish of Ballynacargy. It is said that clay of his grave can cure a toothache.
There is a cure for the measles. Get somebody to milk a cow and while they are milking her two other people pass the child under the cow three times. After that she will get better.
The scum of the Holy well in Ballinacroghy cures sores.
- Collector
- Maeve Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Tristernagh, Co. Westmeath
