School: Lacken and Leny (roll number 3244)
- Location:
- Lackan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S, Mac Shamhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 155
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- XML “Cures - A Cure for Warts”
- XML “Cures - A Cure for an Earache”
- XML “Cures - Cure for Ringworm”
- XML “Cures - Cure for a Cow with Sore Spins”
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- The following cures are held locally.
A cure for warts. Tie a horse's hair around the wart and in a few days it withers away. Miss Fagan, Streete, Co. Westmeath told it to me. She is about fifty years of age.
- A cure for an ear ache. Boil the Cameline Daisy and drop the juice of it into your ear three times each day and after four or five days it (withers away) goes away. Michael Mullan, Ballyvade, Bunbrosna, Co. Westmeath. He is about sixty years of age.
- Informant
- Michael Mullan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 60
- Address
- Ballyvade, Co. Westmeath
- Cure for ring-worm. The seventh son Thomas Browne, Donore, Multyfarnham, Co. Westmeath has the cure of ring-worm. When he puts his thumb to it it goes away in a day.
- Cure for a cow with sore spins. Boil elder leaves and dab the juice on her spins. James Mac Loughlin, Ballyvade, Bunbrosna, Co. Westmeath. He is seventy eight years of age.
