School: Ballinamore (B.) (roll number 2820)
- Location:
- Béal an Átha Móir, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Seán Heslin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0224, Page 178
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- Address
- Achadh Liag, Co. Liatroma
- A Cure For Warts 9/12/'37
Wash with water saturated with common washing soda and let it dry without wiping. Repeat frequently until they disappear.To Cure A Sting Of Bee Or Of A Wasp
Bind on common baking-soda damped with water. Or mix common earth with water to about the consistency of mud and apply to the (wart) sting - Get a "loughaleech", and put it on the cut. The loughaleech will creep round the cut and draw out the poison. Let it remain there for twenty minutes. Then throw the loughaleech away, and the cut will get better.
