School: Newtown National School (roll number 9549)
- Location:
- Newtown (Guest), Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- 1. When the eldest son of two first cousins married, he can cure Boils.
2. The cure for Tooth-ache is Iodine, and Breadsoda 2. Wild-fire, Ashes
3. A cure for warts is -: Spit on a straw and rub it to the wart then bury the straw and tell nobody where it is, by the time the straw has rotted, the wart will have disapeared, another cure for warts is to mix salt and butter-milk and leave the mixture to stand for eighteen days then apply it to the warts until they disappear.
- Collector
- Gladys Armitage
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cangort Park, Co. Offaly
