School: Kilmurry

Location:
Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
A. de Búrca
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  1. 1. Squirt a dop of cow's milk from the udder of the cow into the eye.
    2. Prod the sty with three gooseberry thorns for nine mornings. The three thorns must be put away in a piece of paper.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. 4. To cure a sty in the eye it is good to get a branch of a gooseberry bush with nine thorns on it and to prod the eye once with each of the nine thorns.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.