School: Ughtyneill (roll number 12897)
- Location:
- Ughtyneill, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad, Bean Uí Chinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0705, Page 163
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- If you meet a man on the road and ask hime for a nail for gods sake and drive it in the first tree you meet afterwards you would get better of the toothache.
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- When the seventh son of a family is born they say if there is a worm put on his hand he has the cure of the Kings evil. The worm is put on the child's hand before he is baptised.
