School: Threemilehouse (roll number 342)
- Location:
- Three Mile House, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: I. Mc Eneaney
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- (continued from previous page)The cure of the weak is Brandey, and to wash it with "Beaken-sody" every day. To boil balls of oaten meal, in linen cloths and put beside the heart, and say a certain prayers. Take the balls of meal, and you will find some is missing, and it is cured. The cure of the weak heart is made by the person that makes the cure goes around you three times praying, when finished there is some gone out of the and the bannock is made into oat cake you must eat it without losing any of it. Dirty mouthMrs. McQuaid, Corretard, Three-milehouse, Co. Monaghan. Has the cure of dirty mouth.The person who has the cure blows their breath into the other person's mouth three days in success-(continues on next page)
