School: Gort na Gaoithe (roll number 14218)
- Location:
- Windfield, Co. Galway
- Teacher: M. Ó Lócháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0046, Page 0036
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Shillisha occurs when the small tongue falls down on the big tongue.
The is a man in my village that can cure it. How he cures it is, he pulls a bunch of hair out of a certain spot in the pole of the head.
A bite from a dog is sometimes very dangerous but how it was cured in olden times is, a bunch of hair was pulled off the dog and the sign of the cross was made on the wound with it.
A sty is a swelling much like a boil but not quite as large. It breaks out in the inside of the eyelid but it sometimes causes great pain. The cure for this is to measure it three times with a gooseberry thorn.(continues on next page)
