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School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)

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Dysart, Co. Louth
Teacher:
M. Ní Ailpín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0672, Page 212

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    My grandmother told me that the people used to take it every Spring.
    Nettle Sting
    Get a cold leaf and keep it on the place where the nettle stings you.
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    Mumps
    Tie a rope round your legs and get some one to drive you in, and out three time.
    Thrush
    Boil a turnip and put brown sugar on it, and drink the juice of it.
    Wildfire
    Some old people have a cure for wildfire.
    They get clay from under a lone bush, & shake holy water on it & you, and they have to cross your hands with silver.
    Rose
    Get flour and roast it at the fire and rub it on the sore.
    Ringworm
    Gives it a good hard rub or a brush, & then wash it with paraffin.
    Stys
    You would have to get some one to rub
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