School: Hackettstown (St Joseph's)
- Location:
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: M. Ní Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 308
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- The blood of a double Byrne will cure shingles. To cure whooping-cough put some bread into a donkey's mouth: take it out. Put the child under the donkey and get him to eat the bread while under the donkey.Sugar and soap make poultice. It is very much used for taking thorns out of fingers.
- Yellow Jaundice:
A handful of the bark of a Barbary bush stewed in a pint of new milk.Corns:
Fasten an ivy leaf smeared with lard on the corn. Renew a couple of times and it will bring up the corn(continues on next page) - Informant
- Tom Donnelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Knockatomcoyle, Co. Wicklow
