School: Cannistown (roll number 15104)
- Location:
- Kennastown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Ghiobúin
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- 1. A cure for agne is to swallow a lived frog which eats up whatever is in the stomach that causes the complaint.2. A cure for a bad cold is to get a pint of porter put it in a tin can, put the poker in the fire until it is red; then put it in w the porter which will become hot, and it clears at once.
This remedy was told by a tinker and is never known to fail- Collector
- Gerald Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- (continued from previous page)There is a cure in Dowdstown Well. The cure of the whooping cough is to light a fire between to bridges and bake some bread for the person who is ill. There is also the blessed thistle
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