School: Ballinahowen (roll number 8646)
- Location:
- Ballynahown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Hanly
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- A man in Mounttemple near Ballinahowen cures gall stone. He gets about a pound bag of clay. The person gets it has to boil it and nitre together. Then it has to be strained through a cloth and drank. immediately after being made. He cured my mother of the disease: Chuala mé é seo ó mo máthair.
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“Mr Thomas Fitzgerald who lived in Castledaly used to cure wildfire, ring-worm and erysipelas.”
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