School: Collon (roll number 14579)

Location:: Collon, Co. Louth
Teacher:: Bean Uí Mhathúna

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let a dog lick the place sore.
A person with bad sight is cured by piercing the lower part of the ear, through which women usually put rings.

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“A wart is supposed to be cured if a person finds a black snail without looking for it, and rubs it to the wart, and then sticks it on to the black thorn bush.”

A wart is supposed to be cured if a person finds a black snail without looking for it, and rubs it to the wart, and then sticks it on to the black thorn bush.
In Dowth cemetery, there was a large font, and a person who had warts would put a pin in it and then the warts would disappear.
A cure for the whooping cough was to hold the child nine times under an asse's body.
The clay at Lady's Well in Slane, is supposed to cure all sores and

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