School: Dillonsbridge (roll number 8501)
- Location:
- Philpotstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: A.B. Ní Chumhaill
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- Tooth-aches: Put mustard in your tooth or put salt and cold water in your tooth.
Warts: Cut a potato in the middle and cut a cross on each half and say three Hail Mary's or if you saw a snail coming towards you, pick him up and rub him to the wart, then hang him on a bush, as the snail withers the wart withers, or put forge water on the wart.
Sore throats: Put roasted salt in a stocking and put round your neck, or put the grease of a tallow candle on your neck.
Burns: Put bread soda on them.
Stings: Spit in a docking leaf and put it on the sting.
Cure for chilblains: Rub an onion on them.
Cure for a sore leg: Let a dog lick it
Cure for rhumatism: Eat celery
- Collector
- Ita Fleming
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Jordanstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Fleming
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Jordanstown, Co. Meath
