School: Ballymore (B.) (roll number 7443)
- Location:
- Ballymore, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P.J. Cooney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0743, Page 260
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- Washing soda is supposed to be a cure for wars. If you wash your face with the dew that is on the grass on a May morning you wont be sick that year. The teeth of a corpse if rubbed along your own teeth you will never have toothaches. The stone of a priest's grave is a cure for teethaches also. People tickle the palm of their hands to stop a hic-cough. When people have pains in their stomachs they lie on their mouths under. If you get a thorn under a white thorn brush and your hand swells up you should look for a dor daol and put it in the fire. When he bursts the swelling will burst.
- Collector
- Patrick Cornelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Snimnagorta, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Peter Cornelly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Snimnagorta, Co. Westmeath
