School: Monknewton (roll number 9696)
- Location:
- Monknewtown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Mhurchadha
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leaf out of the dockets that grow on the side of the road and the plastered it over the place where the sty was ans it cured it.
7. The cure for the pain in the ear was to get a roasted onion and to put it into the ear as hot as a person could bear it and it would cure it.
8. If a person had a pain he took soda and ginger and water. He would get a quarter of a tablespoon full of soda and a quarter of ginger and a little water and mix them up together. They drank it going to bed and it cured the pain.
9. The for a boil was to blend up sugar and soap and put it on the boil and stick a piece of rag over it and it cured it.
10. Dandelion juice is good to drink for a weak heart and weak bones. It must be boiled on as little new milk as possible so that the juice would be strong. It grows(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Alice Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dowth, Co. Meath
