School: Clongorey, An Droichead Nua (roll number 8361)
- Location:
- Clongorey, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: S. Mac Phaitrisc
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0776, Page 007
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- There are many old ways of curing sickness, pains and sores. They say if you have a toothache, and if you lick a frog's belly the toothache will go. If a child has whooping cough, and if it is put under a mare ass, and given some of the milk to drink it will be cured. If a person has a sore lip, and if you rub a snail on it the lip will be cured. If you rub a wedding ring on a ringworm it will be cured. If you make the "worms knot" with a piece of twine over a person with a bellyache in the Name of the Father Son, and Holy Ghost, and the pain will go. They say if a horse has bad Kidneys, and if you get broom which grows on the bog, and boil it and give it to the horse he will be cured.
- Collector
- J. O' Rourke
- Address
- Blacktrench, Co. Kildare
