School: Birr (St. Brendan's)
- Location:
- Birr or Parsonstown, Co. Offaly
- Teachers: S. Ó Conchobhair R. Ó Huigín
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- Local Cures.Warts: (1) get a handful of garlic and put it into a cup and let it wither. Then put a little milk into it and rub it to the warts.
Con Guinan. from Hugh Burke
Rathcabbin , Birr.
- (2) If you get some chickweed and squeeze the milk out of it and put it on the wart a couple of times they say it will cure it.
W. McGee. from Mrs. McGee
Seffin , Birr - (3) To cure warts, it was an old cure to rub water from a stone after rain.
W. Sherlock. from John Ryan,
Kileen , Birr. - (4) If you were going over a style and you saw a round hole full of water dip the wart in it and it will wear off.
E. Gilmartin. from Mrs. Gilmartin
Main St. Birr. - (5) Get a potato and cut it in halves and rub it on the wart. Then throw away the potato, and who ever picks up one of the halves will take the wart. (Mrs. Gilmartin)
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- Gender
- Female
