School: An Carraigín (roll number 13836)

Location:
Carrigeen, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Oireachtaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0255, Page 024

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0255, Page 024

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  3. XML “To Cure a Bad Cold or Cough”
  4. XML “To Cure an Evil”
  5. XML “To Cure a Burn”

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    Get some garlic and boil it and sweeten it, to taste and the drink the water in which it was boiled. When the seed would not be procured, the roots were used instead and were found to be equally as good.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. scrofula (~18)
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  3. Get some laurel leaves and sheep-suet. Boil the laurel leaves and pound them, then add about an ounce of the sheep -
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