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School: Ballinlough (roll number 9238)

Location:
Ballinlough Big, Co. Meath
Teacher:
P. Mac Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0704, Page 056

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  1. Cures (continued)

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    Rheumatism
    If you lifted water out of a river between two town-lands and say a certain prayer you would be cured.
    Rose
    The water in a Lough one side of Moylough is a certain cure for the rose. The Lough is called Lough Ruadh.
    Boil
    If you mixed soap and sugar together and put it on the boil it is supposed to cure it.
    A Thorn
    The cure for taking out a thorn is to get a foxe's tongue and boil it in new milk and then rub it to the thorn. This is supposed to take out any thorn.
    Pains
    Boil broom and drink the water of it.
    It will cure it.
    A sting of a Wasp.
    If you rubbed blue to the sting of a wasp it would cure it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Gaughran
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Ballinlough Big, Co. Meath