School: Ráth Ciaragáin (Mount Bolus)
- Location:
- Rathkeeragan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Mac Giolla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0809, Page 075
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- If you have a sty in your eye, get a piece of goose berry bush with seven thorns on it, and prod the sty with them every morning for seven mornings and it will get better. the cure for a boil is soap and sugar mixed and put on the boil and it will cure it. The cure for a burn is "ivy leaves and lard boiled into an ointment" then put the ointment on the burn.
- Collector
- John Cash
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killoughy, Co. Offaly
- In a field of Clavins beside the road to Kilcormac there is a tree in the ditch, and if you are not told about what part of the ditch the tree and if you find this tree there is a hole in it and it is full of water. If you had warts on your hands you could wash your hands in it and the warts will leave you.
- Collector
- Joseph Butler
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mountbolus, Co. Offaly
