School: Aughrim (C.)
- Location:
- Aughrim, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean an Phléimeannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0921, Page 148
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- Local CuresCure for Ear Ache.
Warm a drop of olive oil, put it on a piece of wool and put it in the ear.
Sore Lips.
Hold iron over burning envelope, the iron will sweat, now rub it on a piece of linen and apply to sore lips.
Bleeding
Cobwebs put on bleeding cut.
Certain persons have a prayer which is read to stop the bleeding
If a man has this prayer a woman must ask him to work the prayer and vice vearsa.
When dying a man passes the pra(p)er to a woman and a woman gives it to a man.
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