School: Clochar na Trócaire, Meathas Truim (roll number 13313)
- Location:
- Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford
- Teacher: An tSiúr Bernard
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0770, Page 421
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- XML “The Cure of Sore Eyes”
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- (continued from previous page)money he would earn playing his flute. One of his books which he wrote will never be forgotton namely "She stoops to conquer."
- There is a well about a mile outside summerhill in the county Meath known as the Moy well. Any person who suffers from a bad headache and takes a drink out of the well and drops a pin into it are cured immediately.
- My father has the cure of sore eyes. With a certain liquid he makes, but cannot be mentioned.
- He also has a cure for sufferers of Piles, he gathers a herb known as Pileworth which grows in woods and makes an ointment out of it. He also adds other mixtures.
- There is a man named "Kelly" He lives near Ardagh in a place named "Croshea" He is a seventh son and has the cure of ringworm.(continues on next page)
