School: Drakestown, Ardee (roll number 1554)
- Location:
- Drakestown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Michael Ó Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 305
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- 1. St Patrick's leaf was rubbed to bleeding cuts to stop blood.
2. The "braca thistle" boiled in sweet milk was used to cure whooping cough.
3.If you got a piece of bread from a married pair, the wife's maiden name being the same as her husband's it would cure whooping cough.
4. If a person suffering from whooping cough was put under a pie ball ponies' stomach he would be cured.
5. Yellow clay was used to cure ringworm.
6. Get the oats which falls on the ground from an ass which is eating it with its head in over the half door. Bake it into a cake and give it to those who have whooping cough.
7. Put vinegar on brown paper and place on the forehead, this is a cure for headache.
8. For a boil apply sugar and soap.
9. For a bump apply a cold stone to it.
10.For a bleeding nose apply a cold dishcloth to it.
11. For sore feet bathe them in mustard and water.
12.The cure for mumps is to go into a pig sty three days after each other and while within to say "Hugann na muigana pige na Leieinna.
13. The cure for ringworm is to rub gold to it three times saying "In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost"(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nicholas Hagan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Hurlstone, Co. Louth
