School: Sixmilebridge (B.)
- Location:
- Six-mile-bridge, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Domhnalláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0596, Page 346
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- Stolen forge water is a cure for warts.
The dockleaf is a cure for a sting of a nettle.
Wax is good to cure gaugs on a person's hands.
Yarrow is good for a pain in one's tooth.
The juice of the dandelion is good for warts.
To find water in a hole of a stone and to run it to warts it would cure them.
Blue is good for a sting of a wasp.
A cure for a sty in one's eye is to look through a marriage ring and bless yourself three times with it.
Honey is good for a sore throat.
Lime water and sweet oil is a cure for a burn.
Ferrets leavings is a cure for the chin cough.
Milk boiled in parsley is a cure for the kidneys.(continues on next page)
