School: Ballymakenny, Drogheda (roll number 831)
- Location:
- Ballymakenny, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Chearbhaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0678, Page 154
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- (continued from previous page)1. cold water (2) to sip cold milk (3) to hold the breath and count twenty
2. To cure a cut place a cob web on it. Cow manure plastered on a cut is supposed to cure it.
3. Still another cure for whooping cough is to pass the patient under a black ass.
4. To relieve the pain of a nettle sting a cappóg leaf is applied and these words words said
Cappóg, cappóg in + out
Take the stink of a nettle out
5. To cure a “black eye” comfrey root is crushed and held to the eye
6. To cure “warts” a black snail is got and sprinkled with salt. When the snail is melted to a jelly it is smeared on the wart.
7. There is a cure for warts in the water that lies in the hollow at the base of the smallest of the crosses in Monasterboice churchyard.
