School: Kilbeggan (B.)
- Location:
- Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Mac Siúrtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0732, Page 559
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- If the Godfather of a child puts a red string around the child's neck it will cure the Hooping-cough.Wart.If a person puts a snail on a tree and according as the snail withers the wart will wither too. Another cure is to get a straw or stone and bury it after rubbing the effected part with it, but whoever first walks on the straw or stone after will get the wart.
- Brewery House.This House was once a Brewery belonging to Egans and that is how it got its name.Coal Hill.This hill is in view of the Dublin(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Hurley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath
