School: Oldcastle (C.) (roll number 12489)
- Location:
- Oldcastle, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire D. Ní Nualláin
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- For Measles-Boil nettles with whiskey then drink the juice.
-Drink nettle root washed and boiled with new milk.The Whooping Cough-Drink out of a Bishop's skull.
-After feeding ferrets with milk drink their leavings.
For Warts-Rub with a black snail then hang it on a thorn and when it withers away so will the wart.
A potatoe cut into halfs and rubbed to the wart for nine mornings.(continues on next page)- Informant
- Mrs Hetherton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Newcastle, Co. Meath