School: Poulfur
- Location:
- Grange, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Niadh
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- CuresThis is a cure for a headache. Cut a piece of brown paper to fit the forehead, steep it in vinegar, and lay it on the forehead, repeat it as still as the papers get dry.This is a cure for a whittlo. Put the finger into the boiling potato water three times, when the potatoes are boiling on the fire.This is a cure for a sty on the eye. The first who has seen the sty on the eye get a thorn of a gooseberry bush, and point it at the sty three times without touching it.This is a cure for a boil. Get soap and sugar and mix it together, and make ointment of it, and put it on the boil.This is a cure for a wart. Put your spittle on the wart for nine mornings.Una Doyle,
Great Graigue,
Fethard-on-sea,
Co. Wexford.- Collector
- Una Dolyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Graigue Great, Co. Wexford