School: An Léim Gearr (roll number 8766)
- Location:
- Lemgare, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Duffy
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- Heart Failure: Eat oat-cakes made on the fire from a mixture of oat-meal and water. No one should pass between the patient and the fire while the cakes are being made. Teddy McArdle, Annabrock.
Erysipelas: Fresh butter should be brought to certain people who have the cure of this disease. These people will make a charm from it and the person should not speak to anyone on the way home.
A man called Graham from Glasslough has the cure. Teddy McArdle, Annabrock.
Festor in Horses:
Get two turnips and take the middle slice from each. Then get a bit of cloth and dip it in water. Bandage the horses lef with the two slices of turnip near the fester.
Sean Murray, Lemgare.- Collector
- Seán Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lemgare, Co. Monaghan
- Collector
- Teddy Mc Ardle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tattyreagh North, Co. Monaghan