School: Rathregan (roll number 9846)
- Location:
- Rathregan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Uigín
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- Cures My grandfather told me some cures and here are some of them.
The cure of a talac in anyone's wrist is to tie an eel skin tight around it.
The cure of chilblains on the hands or feet is a cut onion.
The cure of a bleeding nose is something cold put to it.
Here are some cures for a thorn in the hand or foot.
Put wax where the thorn is and it will cure it or put hot bread on it.
For relieving any sore that is turned dirty boil sugar and soap and some bread crumbs off a loaf and some sweet milks.
The cure of a burn is a roger leaf.
To cure the diarrheoa drink boiled sweet milk and cuckoo sorrel(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nicholas Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Nicholas O' Brien
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Thorntown, Co. Dublin
