School: Kilberry (roll number 2533)
- Location:
- Kilberry, Co. Meath
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0711, Page 186
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- (continued from previous page)want is a weed that is called chicken weed. Mr Michael McKenna, Sallypark, has a cure for burns and blood poison for blood poisin. He puts on sugar and soap and poultices of linseed meal. Miss Julia Smith, Belsow, has the same cures.
- The cure for a stye in the eye performed by a person that has his father and mother alive. He should offer a gooseberry thorn to it every-day for nine days. Ringworm is cured for painting it with iodine. Warts are cured by washing them every day with washing soda. The Dirty Mouth is cured by a person who never saw his father or by honey and borax. A bleeding is stopped by a puff ball. The Whooping cough is cured by giving a loaf to a Jack ass to eat it and then gather up all the crumbs and boil them to give to the patients. Wild Fire is cured by rubbing a bit of gold to it such as a gold ring or a half-sovereign. Neuralgia is cured by saying three Hail Mary's to our Lady of Perpetual Succur every day.
- Collector
- Gerard Curran
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Curran
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Proudstown, Co. Meath
