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School: Callystown, Drogheda (roll number 14252)

Location:
Callystown, Co. Louth
Teacher:
S. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0675, Page 025

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    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)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English