School: Balrath (roll number 9770)
- Location:
- Balrath, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Oirghiall
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- XML “Local Cures - The Wart Well”
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- My mother told me this cure for warts.
Count the warts. Put that number of stones in a paper bag. Drop it going down a road and dont come back that way. You should not look behind. Who ever lifts the bag will take the warts and you will lose them.- Collector
- Millie Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- We went to see the wart well today. It is about a furlong from the school, in Gaynor's field on the side of Frewin Hill. The water is about a foot deep in a small hole on a fairly high ditch. The tree seems very old as it is crumbling and was cut down at some time as only the stump remains.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gretta Sargent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Farrow, Co. Westmeath