School: Meath Hill (roll number 7166)
- Location:
- Meath Hill, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Patrick J. Connolly
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- (continued from previous page)Cure for the Plucamur (mumps)A man puts a halter round the patient * leads her to the piggery repeating the rhyme.
"Leicene, leicne tugadh do lucna
Micna, mucna tugadh do leicne"Cure for the Forsee (a disease in horses
a swelling on one of the legs which spreads to the body for which there is no vetinary cureA Charm for it
Special people in the district have a charm for it; he gave the horse something in a bottle like water and whispered something into the horse's ear.
(he would not reveal the charm to anybody)