School: Oulart (roll number 15419)
- Location:
- Oulart, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamus Ó hAilleacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 355
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- (continued from previous page)rubbed well into the cows tail
Cure for liver in fowl :- Butter and soot would cure the liver complaint in fowl.
Cure for sore eyes :- Cold tea
Warts :- If you got a black snail and rubbed it over the warts three times it would cure them. When you are finished with the snail you should hang it on a black thorn.
Herbs :- Mrs Foxen the Hill, Oulart made ointment from herbs. She made it for burns. It is unknown what she made it from.Miss Nolan the back of the hill makes blast ointment. It would be for curing a blast on a cow's udder.
Garret Fitzgerald, Raheeduff, Oulart, Gorey was a seventh son, he was gifted. He would cure the Pharsy on horses.
Mrs Oakes of Arsquinton was a seventh son. He can cure the Pharsy on horses
Goose grease put on wool greased is a cure for cold on the chest
