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School: Coill Sailighe (roll number 4855)

Location:
Kilsallagh, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máiréad, Bean Uí Ghiobáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138, Page 256

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  1. A Song (continued)

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  2. Local Cures

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    Garlic is good for a worm in a calf tail. The people known when there is a worm in a calfs tail, because when they feel the tail the calf looks around. Then they can tell where the worm is. Then they cut the tail where the worm is. They break the Garlic with a hammer and mix it with soot. Then they would put it into a cloth and put it around the tail where it was cut. They would leave the cloth around the cut for a week. The penny wort is good for a pain in a persons ear. It is a round green leaf
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