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School: Tolerton, Ballylickmoyler (roll number 11321)

Location:
Towlerton, Co. Laois
Teacher:
L. Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0838, Page 181

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    has the cure for children's fever also. There is another cure for warts also. It is said if we get a straw and put three knots on it and then put it towards the wart, saying, while doing, this three Hail Mary's, the wart will be cured before the straw is withered.
    There is a holy well in Killgorey. Some people go to this well to be cured. If they get cured they tie a rag on a bush that is situated near the well. Old people say that in olden times the water used to flow from the trunk of a tree into the well.
    It is said that a man tried to
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Carmel Graham
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Towlerton, Co. Laois
    Informant
    Miss Pender
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Towlerton, Co. Laois