School: Cortown (roll number 3113)
- Location:
- Cortown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0701, Page 011
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- Pat Dillon. Bohermeen has the cure for warts. Mrs Naulty. Balrathboyne has the cure for the bust on the finger.
My Mother (Mrs Lynch Balrathboyne) has the cure for the running worm. She makes the cure with hemlock. She makes a powder which the person takes.
P. Taffee, Fordstown has the cure for blood poisin. One day he was passing by a house on the roadside and he happened to go in. There was a girl dying from blood poisin. He had the ointment in his pocket and he took it out and cured the girl.
Kare Parry, Fordstown has the cure for ringworm. She gets nine pieces of oaten straw and with a knot on each end of the straw and she burnes a piece each day for nine days and rubs the ashes to the ringworm and she cures it.
There is a well in Moyaugher and if you have a pain in your head go to the well and drink the water and it will cure you.
Maggie Moore, Ardbraccan has the cure for the scabs(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Balrathboyne Glebe, Co. Meath
- Informant
- William Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Balrathboyne Glebe, Co. Meath
