School: Ballinamore (B.) (roll number 2820)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Heslin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0224, Page 178
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- If you have chillblains on your feet, wash them in your own urine.
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- Collector
- Patrick Mc Cartin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Oughteragh, Co. Leitrim
- 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.
