School: Brannockstown (roll number 16817)
- Location:
- Brannockstown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0776, Page 467
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- (continued from previous page)apply it to them like ointment.
Roasted Alum was the cure for a sore mouth long ago. They used to roast the Alum on a clean bar and make it into a powder.
Any person by the name of Cahill's and Keogh's can cure at sickness called St Antonys Fire by putting some of their blood on the person.
Mrs Hogan in Kilcullen can cure Minearac.
- A fasting spit can cure a sty and if your mother rubs her ring on a sty it cures also.
If you go nine times between an ass'es leg it is a cure for a whooping cough. Merin's can cure warts.Other cures on another page - Collector
- Nora Keogh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Brannockstown, Co. Kildare
