School: Aughnamullen (roll number 6284)
- Location:
- Aghnamullen, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0941, Page 027
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- (continued from previous page)Sty: Get some thorns off a Gooseberry bush. tick three into the sty one day and three the next day until the nine thorns are used. Use the name of the Trinity each time you stick a thorn. Then throw the thorn away.
Cure for a festering or bealing ear. Old people used to blow the smoke from a clay pip into the ear. Others used to and still roast a piece of onion and put it in the ear.
Cure for a cold; Boil buttermilk and put a pinch of sugar and salt into it and take it going to bed.
- Collector
- Kathleen Conolly
- Gender
- Female
