School: Kilmessan (C.) (roll number 4211)
- Location:
- Kilmessan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Stín
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The green slime on the top of stagnant water will cure a burn.
Chicken Weed or marsh mallow boiled will cure a sprain.
Water from Saint Brigid's Well will cure a headache.
Get bread from two people of the same name who are marries and boil it in milk. This bread will cure the whooping cough.
If children are placed three times under a donkey's legs and given the milk to drink it will cure whooping cough.
Warts can be cured by going out under a full moon and rubbing them with a raw potato.
The white milk out of a Triáinín will cure warts.
On Saint Brigid's night if a ribbon is placed on the hedge so that the dew can fall on it, if this ribbon is placed on your head it will cure a head-ache.
If people who suffer from rheumatism wash themselves in the water where(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Assey, Co. Meath
