School: Killeevan (roll number 14150)
- Location:
- Killeevan Glebe, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mrs Beggs
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0950, Page 313
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- 1. Mr. Creighton of Newbliss has a charm for a sprain, he has oil that he rubs on it and he says some words to himself.
2. Mr. Sattor has a cure for a whittle.
3. If we roast a snail and put it to a corn it will cure it.
4. If a husband and wife of the same name make a pancake it will cure the whooping cough.
5. Chickenweed boiled will cure sore feet.
6. Baking-soda cures heart-burn.
7. Sulphur and buttermilk cures boils.
8. There is a well at Stonebridge called the Jaundice well. If any person had jaundice and go to the well and take a drink out of it, and hang a rag on a bush for a cure.
9. There is a little fern that grows in a lone bush and if we pull it, and drunk the juice(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Edith Crawford
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 10
- Address
- Killycoonagh, Co. Monaghan
