School: Castlejordan (roll number 15974)
- Location:
- Castlejordan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: M. Nic Amhlaoidh
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- Cumfory root boiled and the juice strained out of it will cure a strain.
Oakbark and salt boiled and the juice rubbed on a sore breast of a horse will cure it.
Drink asses milk and it will cure consumption.
Boiled raideóg [?] will cure worms in animals or in human beings.
Throw ivory buttons into a wine glass and squeeze lemon juice on them and they will melt in two days to white paste and rub it on a corn and it will it.
To cure the chincought let the godfather of the child buy a red ribbon and bring it to the child and put it around it's neck and let it wear it and it will be cured.
Rub a frog to a toothache and it will cure it.- Collector
- Lizzie Coyne
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Lynam
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kildangan, Co. Meath