School: Littlewood, Coolkenna
- Location:
- Killabeg, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: John Sargent
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A dockleaf to cure nettle sting. Where there is a nettle There is also a dock.
"Healing touch" leaf. (Kilgaeggan) cures sore +burn +boils. - Heat leaf at fire and put inside to sore.
The milk of wartwood to cure warts: also washing sods
Scalded (boiled) buttermilk or a cold mashmallow as a poultice for Rheumatism
Aghede Rocks. There is a large hole in this rock. Cure for measles. put the child through the hole(on right of this cure is a drawing of the rock and its hole)
Bog ware a cure for corns
Cure for warts - (a) To wash the warts in the water in a trough in Aghold Graveyard
(b) Cut a turnip into slices. Rub the wart with this slices : then bury the turnip. A the turnip dies the wart also dies
(c) Get nine knots of straw // (nine straws). Make the wart bleed. Dip each knot in the blood and bury the know. As the straw dies the warts fade.
Salt onland a cure for flukes
Water from Forge trough is a cute from wounded horse (broken iron)
Oak bark for tanning skins(continues on next page)
