School: Flower Hill (roll number 12788)
- Location:
- Flower Hill, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Isabel Mc Quade
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- (continued from previous page)Make a poultice of boiled Marsh Mallows. Apply round ankle or wrist.
- If a person had an earache extract the juice from an ash stick by putting it over the fire. Let this juice cool and drop it into the ear.
To roll an onion in several layers of wet brown paper and roast in open fire and when soft squeeze out of the onion and let the juice cool and drop into ear for earache. - Collector
- Rebecca Mc Allen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Navan, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Allen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Navan, Co. Meath
- Roast a black snail in wet brown paper and apply to a corn.
- Put the raw white of an egg over any cut and it will prevent a scar.
