School: St Columba's Abbey, Navan (roll number 882)
- Location:
- Navan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Br. Abban O' Donoghue
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0700, Page 122
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- (continued from previous page)will be out in the morning.
- Boil and strain celery seed and drink off.
- Obtained from Mrs Brady Donaghmore, who has the cure handed down from her grandmother. It is written in a little piece of paper and no one knows who wrote it.
The cure was got from Mrs Dillon ne Gilsenan of Girley great grandmother of the Bradys. People as a rule do not tell the ingredients of their cures but these people gave the paper containing the cure and were quite willing to give it.
The Cure:-
1. Red Nettle
2. Daisy roots
3. Yarrow
4. Sorrell
5. Crow foot
6. Salt
7. Suit [Suet]
8. White of Egg
9. Butter
[?] Boil down and put to Bust - Informant
- Mrs Brady
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Donaghmore, Co. Meath
