School: Castletown
- Location:
- Castletown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Owen Maguire
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- (continued from previous page)wash it with strong washing soda and when dry paste black sulphur and lard on it. There is a weed called comfry and if you eat the root of this weed it is supposed to cure it heart disease. To cure Asthma if you boil the root of Dandelion and eat it. It is supposed that if you boil the root of comfry and rub it on the ringworm.
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- Collector
- Betty Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leggagh, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs T. Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Leggagh, Co. Meath