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School: Rochfortbridge (B.) (roll number 1122)

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Rochfortbridge, Co. Westmeath
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Ml. Rowan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0730, Page 440

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    24-1-'38
    Local Cures
    A burn.
    Get some man who has licked an Alapucker to lick it and he will cure it.
    A wart.
    Go to Rose Dunne, Rochfortbridge, and count them for her and in a few days they will be withered away.
    A thorn.
    If you go to Mrs Maguire, Kilbride, she will give you ointment she makes and after the third piece of ointment you put on it the thorn will come out.
    Chillblains.
    Kate Cahill, Rochfort Bridge, makes ointment and after the third rub of it they die.
    Mumps
    If you put an ass's winkers on the person and lead them out to the pigsty and say to the pigs, "Mucks, mucks take the mumps away"
    A stye.
    If you have a stye in your eye go to a
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joseph Carty
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rochfortbridge, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    John Carty
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    53
    Address
    Rochfortbridge, Co. Westmeath