School: Donore (roll number 6668)
- Location:
- Donore, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Nic Eóin
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- CuresJaundice
The bark of the broom boiled down and the water taken off it and made into a drink. Kathleen McGuinness
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- Kathleen Mc Guinness
- Gender
- Female
- WartsThe juice of the dandelion rubbed on warts will remove them.
Washing soda moistened and rubbed on the warts is another cure. - RheumatismTo bathe the painful joint with the liquid from boiled Marsh Mallow is said to bring great relief.
- WhitlowTo plunge the finger into a pot of boiling potatoes will cure a whitlow.
