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School: Cormeen (roll number 16132)

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Cormeen, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Brian T. Ó Dubhláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0707, Page 255

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    then it would cure the dirty mouth. Boiled dandelion is a cure for the heart.
    There is a well at Kier Carnaross, and the people go to it to get cured of toothaches, headaches, and other diseases. A cure for wart is, if you find a snail when you are not looking for him, and rub him to your warts, and then stick him on a tree, and when he'd go the warts would go. The blessed thistle is a cure for the hooping cough. A docken cures a sting of a nettle.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Lynch
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cornaville North, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Thomas Gearty
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Fertagh, Co. Meath