School: Cnapach
- Location:
- Knappagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Hionruaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 112
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- (continued from previous page)make the cure of the rose. She takes ten stones to a bog hole, she throws one into it, and the other nine across the part on which the rose is.Worms boiled on sweet milk is the cure of the jaundice, but the person must not know what he is getting.Alick Watson, Billyhill, is a great man for curing ringworm of course it is with an herb he does it. He is the only person in this area who can cure ringworm properly.There is certain cure for the sty. A person whose father and mother are living can make the cure. Take ten gooseberry thorns point nine towards the sty saying. "In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost" and throw away the other thorn, continuing this for nine days.If a child is put through St Joseph's Cord before it takes the whooping cough it will never faint with the whooping cough. That is the cure Matthew Heappock, R.I.P. always used and it was never unsuccessful.Paddy Boylan, Lisnaclay, can cure(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martha Mc Cann
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drokaghbane, Co. Cavan
