School: Castletowngeoghegan (B.) (roll number 2092)
- Location:
- Castletown Geoghegan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Ó Conaire
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- (continued from previous page)without using it the breadsoda would turn into ointment and the old people used it to cure corns. If you lick an alpucar's[?] belly, it will cure a burn. For pains on hips, the old people used goose-grease and rubbed it into the hips to cure them. There is a well in Scally's field, Carne called Tober a Wóg. Here people used to go and dip their hands in it to cure warts. Rub the juice of a raw potato on warts every morning and evening + they will be gone after three days. If you drink a cup of scalding butter-milk, it will cure a sore throat. If you mix sulphur and milk and rub it on a rash, it will cure the rash. If the people got a cut of a knife long ago, they would put salt on it and it would cure the cut.
- From the time when Adam and Eve committed a sin, every person was subject to disease. Long ago the people lived in clans and every clan had its own doctor who(continues on next page)