School: Dillonsbridge (roll number 8501)
- Location:
- Philpotstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: A.B. Ní Chumhaill
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- (continued from previous page)Local Cures
Sprain
9. A cure for a burn: hold it to the fire
10. A cure for a bleeding nose: put a green stone at the back of your neck
11. A cure for scurvy: put Brooklime and waterevess to it
12. A cure for a black eye: put a poultice of rotten apple to it
- Local Cures
Cure for a wart: get an old potato and cut it in two. Mark a cross on each half of it and put salt on the cross. Then say three Hail Marys while rubbing both halves of the potato on the wart. Throw away the potato. As it is rotting the wart is also going away. Cure for chilblains Rub turpentine on them. Cure for the thrush: Get a piece of baked bread from a married couple, the wives maiden name being the same as(continues on next page) - Collector
- Margaret Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Castletown Tara, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Nicholas Sheridan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castletown Tara, Co. Meath
