School: Harold (B.), Dalkey
- Location:
- Dalkey, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: M. Ó Maoláin
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10-2-38 Local Cures
(10 About ten years ago a woman of middle age was cured at the Lady's Will. She was told by her friends that there was a well on Convent Road in Dalkey and that all the people used to visit it because there was a cure in it. The woman decided to go to the well and she bought with her a bottle. When she reached the well she said a few prayers and she rubbed the water on her sore eyes. She went home and the next day her eyes were made clean.
(2) When a person gets a sing of a bee they put a bit of blue on it
(3) When a person has warts they just put the juice of dandelion on the warts.
(4) When the blacksmith is putting out a red hot iron bar he puts the bar into(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Mitchell
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- P. Mitchell
- Gender
- Unknown
- Age
- 24
- Address
- Saint Patrick's Road, Co. Dublin
