School: Dunshaughlin (B.)
- Location:
- Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Gearóid Mac Gabhann
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- Cures from wells.
St Seachnaills well in a field called the Meenus. The clay of this well is supposed to cure for sore sore eyes and legs. St John's well in Warrenstown has a cure for coughs and sore eyes in the water. It is said that if you get a worm called God's horse and put it in a bag and tie it around your neck, when it dries the sickness leaves you. This cures the whooping cough.
To cure a sty. Get ten gooseberry thorns and point nine to the sty and throw the tenth away.
Mumps. Some say to put the child in along with the pigs for a certain(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Kenny
- Gender
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