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School: Wilkinstown (roll number 1917)

Location:
Wilkinstown, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Máire Ní Failcheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0711, Page 153

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  1. Local Cures

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    Roasted salt put in a stocking and put round your neck is a cure of a sore throat.
    If you chew a piece of the skin of a young ash tree, it will cure a "heart-burn."
    A cup full of alder-berry wine along with a little water is good for a cough.
    If you got a burn you can cure is by putting bread soda on the part that is burned.
    The sting of a wasp of bee is cured by rubbing blue on the part that is stung.
    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
    Nancy Sheridan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Wilkinstown, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Laurence Crahan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Wilkinstown, Co. Meath

  2. A Prayer to be Said When Going to Bed

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    "There are four corners on my bed,
    Four Angels overhead,
    Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,
    God bless the bed that I lie on,
    Here I lie for to sleep,
    I give my soul to God to keep,
    And if I die before I wake,
    I give my soul to God to take."
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit