School: Skerries, Athy (roll number 10975)
- Location:
- Skerries North, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: E. Tansey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0781, Page 203
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- (continued from previous page)after one-another and then the pain will go.
I saw my mother using this cure and it worked.
- Some people suffer from weak kidneys. A man named Micheal Nolan from Baltinglass went to a woman name Mrs Kenny from Castledermot. Micheal Nolan had very weak kidneys. She told him that the best cure was to eat a slice of a raw potato every morning for three weeks. He took it every morning. He never suffered from weak kidneys since.
- Collector
- Lizzie Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmead, Co. Kildare
