School: Moate or Moyvoughley (?)
- Location:
- Moate, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0745, Page 122
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- (continued from previous page)in Bellaire and who was often hungry and people were good to him by supplying him with bread. Now he is dead, and his ghost appears every night, and no on may pass him without a piece of bread.
- There are many old cures in this District of Hall, Moate, which they old people had and believed in.
1. One is a cure for warts. "Black Snails" a famous one. The first thing they would do is to get a black snail and rub it on them. There is also a weed called "Wart Weed" but that is not the real name. It is a root and it grows in any kind of land, it has a juice inside like milk in which is the cure.
2. There is also a cure for burns which they made from primroses mixed with grease or(continues on next page) - Collector
- Maureen Berry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moate, Co. Westmeath
