School: Áth Treasna (B.) (roll number 11236)
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Dálaigh
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- (continued from previous page)picks up the bag will get the warts.
Another cure is to stick a pin in a whitethorn bush; according as the pin rusts the warts will disappear.
The Holy Well to the west of Newmarket is locally noted for curing sore eyes. It is also a cure for sore eyes to look through a gold wedding ring. A plaster of soap and sugar is said to cure a boil. Roasted ivy-leaves applied to a boil will burst it.
If the hot manure of a cow is put to a whitlow it will cure it Warts may be also cured by rubbing the water you will get in a hollow stone to them. There is a holy well in Dromagh and it is noted for curing cripples and if they are cured they leave their crutches hanging up to show they were cured.- Collector
- P.J. Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Barleyhill, Co. Cork