KILL OR CURE Roseleen Underwood MAGI Although it doesn’t happen very often, one of the joys of searching parish registers is finding the unexpected—the odd cartoon or snide comment about the quality of the other priest’s record-keeping, showing that they didn’t always live in harmony and weren’t the perfect beings they might have liked us to believe them. I have even found knitting and crochet patterns for mittens in the flyleaves. The registers of Blackditches (Valleymount) in North Wicklow have a few gems— FOR THE GOUT Boil a handfull of the Elderbark or soft tops on sour Buttermilk & Oatmeal. … Read More