School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)
- Location:
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 427
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- Steal a bit of beef, and put it under a stone, when the meat rots, the wart goes.
A woman puts a red-hot poker or iron up to the eye "in the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost, stye is gone next morning.
Ten jags (or thorns) of a gooseberry bush - pluck them - point them to the stye - (throw the tenth one over your shoulder)- three at a time, saying "In the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost, throw tenth one away - stye will be gone next day.
Cure for ringworm, get 2 people of the same name who are going to be married. Send a child to the house for some bread. Eat the bread.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Gorman
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Hunt
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
