School: Kilcleagh (roll number 14700)
- Location:
- Kilcleagh, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mheachair
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0745, Page 089
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- 1. There is an old saying, that if a nettle stings you to get a Docken and say "Docken, Docken, in and out, take the stong of a nettle out."
2 .If you get a sting of a wasp, rub it with blue.?
3. A wart if rubbed with washing soda and a fasting spit for nine mornings, these will cure it.
4. For a festered cut wash it in blue stone water.
5. For a stye in the eye get nine gooseberry thorns and point them at the stye for nine mornings.
6. To cure a colie in a horse give a teaspoonful of gun powder to him.
- Collector
- Lilian Rolston
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Church Street, Co. Westmeath
- 1. A cure for a headache, is to eat a hot boiled potato.
2. A cure for a toothache is to press breadsoda into the cavity of the tooth.(continues on next page)
