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School: Dún Béicín (roll number 14822)

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Doonbeakin, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Máire Nic Giolla Geanainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0167, Page 0712

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    In the olden times the people did not believe in doctors but their own, but the people nowadays do not believe in the old cures.
    The cure for toothake is that if one meets a frog without looking for him and rub him to one's tooth he will never take it again.
    A burn is cured by rubbing a mankeeper to one's tongue and then by rubbing one's tongue to the burn.
    To cure a sty on one's eye, get ten gooseberry thorns point nine to one's eye and throw away the tenth one and the eye will be cured.
    There is a Holy well in Dunalton Dromore West and in the olden times there were two women cured in it. One was cured of bad eyes and the other was cured of a
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Conlon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Doonbeakin, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Pat Conlon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Altans, Co. Sligo