School: Leacht na mBard (Latnamard) (roll number 16769)
- Location:
- Latnamard, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Máire Ní Dhubhthaigh
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The seventh daughter of a family can cure sprains.
A cure for the mumps was to lead the patient with a horses halter in one side of a pig cro door and out the other side.
The cure for a burn is to boil ferns and butter and put them on it, but you must not walk on it when you have the poultice on or it will not get better.
The cure for warts is to spit on a slice of raw potato and rub it for nine mornings.
When people go to holy wells they leave something holy beside the well. Nobody will take away anything holy from the wells.
