School: Skerries, Athy (roll number 10975)

Location:
Skerries North, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
E. Tansey
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  1. For your hair
    To prevent your hair from [falling] out the cure is to get a drop of tractor oil that has fallen from the oil tank and rub it on your hair and it will prevent it from falling out and it will make more grow.
    Patrick Flynn told me this.
    Patrick Berry Athy

    Horse Warts
    The cure for warts on a horse is to an iron and redden it put it on the warts and it will turn them of. i saw it at Mastersons or Ardellous Athy
    Patrick Berry
    Skerries Athy
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.