School: Feevagh (roll number 9517)
- Location:
- Feevagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Seán Ó Bhaldraithe
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- (continued from previous page)this only on Monday and Thursday. Boils are cured by putting a poultice made by mixing soft sugar with common yellow soap, and pounding them up together. A thorn from a whitethorn bush which grows at a spot where "three parishes meet" will also cure a boil, if the person with the boil goes the said bush, plucks a thorn and points it at the boil, while standing at the bush.
- A Sty on the eye is cured by plucking ten thorns off any gooseberry bush and then pointing them one by one at the sore eye. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Coyne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowntarriff, Co. Roscommon
