School: Loughteague, Stradbally (roll number 6129)
- Location:
- Loughteeog, Co. Laois
- Teachers: Brigid Keane Brighid Ní Chatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0837, Page 127
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- (continued from previous page)Chicken Pox:-1) Steep cuckoo sorrel in buttermilk for three days and three nights. It gets thick and jelly-like. Rub the whole body with it or apply as a plaster.2) Sheep "saffron" (?) in milk cf. page 20
Wildfire - Shingles. Go to the child of parents whose names were the same before marriage without being related. If this person lets a drop of his blood on wildfire it will be healed.
Styes -Point gooseberry at stye nine mornings in succession saying - In the name F. S. H.G.
You should pick a stalk having nine thorns, do this while still fasting, wet the thorn with your fasting spit and point the stye "In the name - etc
Sore Eyes -1) Drop in celendine juici (the larger celandine = poppy family) called "sall-on-tine(cá -aks) hard little crust on eyelids
To remove Sreamh - Wet with fasting spit2) Wash in cold tea
3) Wash in water containing a little bread soda(continues on next page)
