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School: Sgoil Naoimh Conaill, Na Gleanntaí (roll number 15467)

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Glenties, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Cathal Mac Duibhir
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    There are many diseases and pains in the world, and as doctors were not many, people had their own cures and medicine.
    (1) They said that if you rubbed clay from a graveyard to your teeth when having toothache that you would get better.
    (2) When any person got hurt the people gathered dockens. Then they brused them and mixed them with oatmeal. They then boiled both and when they had this done they rolled it up in a cloth and put it to
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eoin Ó Baoghaill
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drumnasillagh, Co. Donegal