School: Ballinacree (B.) (roll number 13965)
- Location:
- Ballynacree, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Pádraic Ó Connachtáin
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- Steal bit of bacon from a neighbour's house and bury it in the earth and when bacon begins to rot the warts will disappear.
- Collector
- Pádraig Ó Loinisgh
- Gender
- Male
- The cure for warts is to mix sheeps manure with herbs and rub it on the wart and the wart will go away.
- To get a hazel stick and light it and burn of the warts with it.