School: Robertstown, Naas (roll number 15655)
- Location:
- Robertstown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: P. Ó Harachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 180
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- Cure for a style in your eye. Get a gooseberry thorn and prod your eye with it?If you get stung by a nettle get a dock-leaf and wet it, and rub it on the place you are stung.If you get a sting of a wasp , wet tobacco and rub it on it.There is a well in Blackwood called St Garban's well. It got its name from a very holy priest. There was a house beside the well long ago. The family that were like in it got so (disease). Every one of them was in bed together. They had no one to do as much as hand them a drink. They were in bed for a couple of days. When St Garban's heard of their plight he got some of the water , out(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Crissie Daly
- Gender
- Unknown
- Age
- 10
- Address
- Blackwood, Co. Kildare
