School: Callystown, Drogheda (roll number 14252)
- Location:
- Callystown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: S. Ó Murchadha
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- (continued from previous page)Holy Well
St. Denis well cures worts and corns.N.B. (This well has been mentioned at the beginning of this copy)Worts Rock
On Almondstown Hill there is a wort rock. If you stick a pin in the wort and leave the pin in a hole in this rock in which there is some water.Cure of Sea Boils
If you get chicken weed and boil it and put it on the Boils they will burst and be cured.It is said that young men get these boils on the body when these young people go to sea to fish for the first time.(continues on next page)