School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na Sluagh

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1. Local Cures (continued)

   

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   There is also another well, known as Tubber na Sul, This well used for sore eyes that is the reason it got its name. It is only a few hundred yards south of St. Grellan's Church at Kilclooney, and it holds constant running water during the dry summer.

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   Miss Eily Ahern.
   Garbally,
   Ballinasloe

   

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2. Local Cures

   

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   2. In olden times when doctors were few, the old people had to depend on home remedies in time of sickness. For a simple cold they used what they called a scalteen. This consisted of butter-milk and oat-meal boiled together with a little sugar and butter and given to the patient to drink at night.
   For a toothache they used pepper or cloves. Sometimes if the tooth was very bad they would tie a piece of twine to the door and to the tooth and with a sudden jerk remove it. For a cut on the finger

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Esther Eccles

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Dunlo Street, Co. Galway