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School: Ballinacree (B.) (roll number 13965)

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Ballynacree, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Pádraic Ó Connachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 149

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    A sty.
    Get nine gooseberry thorns point them to your eye one after another. With the ninth bless yourself with it and throw it across your shoulder.
    Black Tea.
    Another cure for a sty is to bathe the sty with black tea for three mornings.
    Mumps
    Asse's Winkers
    Get an asse's winkers and put it on the person that has the mumps, and drive him out to the pig-sty for three times, once every morning
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    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
    Tomás Mac Síomóin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Hilltown, Co. Westmeath