School: Ardee (Mercy Convent) (roll number 8445)
- Location:
- Ardee, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Sr. M. Angel (Aingil)
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- (continued from previous page)any other time of the year. They take off their shoes and stockings and stand in the well. It is said that in a few days afterwards they are cured.
Moira Woods
Stickillen
Ardee
Co. Louth. - If you have warts the cure for them is to rub rushes to them saying, In the name of the father and the son and of the Holy Ghost.
Pour holy water on the rushes a few times bury the rushes in the garden and while they are dying the wart will wither away
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