School: Tullaghanstown (roll number 9605)
- Location:
- Tullaghanstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Mhic Cába
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- (continued from previous page)meal and put it on your breast and after three visits he would give you the oaten meal to eat
If your Godfather brought you a red ribbon and you with the chin cough it would lighten it
There is a holy well called St Brigids in Rahoney and it would cure a sick stomach.
If you had warts if you rubbed potatoes to them four times a day for a fortnight it would cure them.
Phill Bray of Derrylangon has the cure of Haemorrhage by saying a prayer
- People have different cures nowadays compared to long ago.
The way they had for curing a(continues on next page) - Collector
- Biddy Coffey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tullaghanstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mr Christopher Coffey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Tullaghanstown, Co. Meath
