School: Birr (St. Brendan's)
- Location:
- Birr or Parsonstown, Co. Offaly
- Teachers: S. Ó Conchobhair R. Ó Huigín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0821, Page 009
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- (continued from previous page)Ghost, and it will cure it.D Hoctor from Denis Egan, Carrig, Birr.
- (2) The cure for a sty in eye is to get a thorn from a gooseberry tree and stick it in the sty, then get a small box and put the thorn into it and burn it.B. Hickey from M. Breen, Newbridge St. Birr.
- (3) A cure which is the most common of all is a very easy cure for stys. Get the remaining tea leaves in the tea-pot. Put it in a cup and get a soft cloth and soak it well with the tea leaves and what ever drop of tea is left. Bathe the sty and it will be cured.J Fox from Mrs. Morton, Coolderry, Birr.
- Collector
- J. Fox
- Informant
- Mrs Morton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolderry, Co. Offaly
- Ringworm(1) Get a red hot iron and some wheat and put the iron to the wheat and mill it. Then put it to the place where the ring is and it will go away.Denis Egan from Patrick Meara(continues on next page)
