School: The Oak, Portlaoighse (roll number 15377)
- Location:
- Clondouglas, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Seán Bairéad
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0834, Page 241
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- In olden times there was very little doctors, and people believed in the cures that they had themselves.
Here are some of the cures that are to be found in the Oak School district in County Laoighise.
When people had ringworm long ago the got some house leek that grows on the wall of a house. They squeezed the juice out of one of the leaves on the ring worm and that was supposed to be a cure for it.
