School: Ballyboghill
- Location:
- Ballyboghil, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: P.J. Connolly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0787, Page 335
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- (continued from previous page)There is a cure for the whooping cough. If you find God's horse without looking for it and tie it round your wrist you are supposed to be cured.
- There is a cure for warts. You put your warts into forge water and keep them there for about ten minutes and the warts are supposed to come off.To cure a sty, you get a thorn of a gooseberry bush and bless
- There is a cure for warts. You put your warts into forge water and keep them there for about ten minutes and the warts are supposed to come off. To cure a sty, you get a thorn of a gooseberry bush and bless(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nan Mahon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Grange, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Mrs Mahon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Grange, Co. Dublin
