School: Athboy
- Location:
- Athboy, Co. Meath
- Teachers: Pilib Ó Néill Tomás Ó Domhnalláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0696, Page 323
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- (continued from previous page)before going to bed at night is an old cure for a sore throat.
Ringworm: Sulphur and a quarter pound of butter mixed. When applying the cure say three hail marys. To be rubbed every morning after washing.
Warts: Get a snail and rub him on the wart. The snail must be got on a bush when rubbing him on the wart bless yourself three times.
Sore ear: A sore ear is cured by holding it over a mug of boiling water and let the steam get into it.
- Collector
- Tom Fitzpatrick
- Gender
- Male
