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School: Baile an Churraigh

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Baile an Churraigh, Co. na Gaillimhe
Teacher:
A. L. Ó Maoileannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0015, Page 513

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    Local Cures.
    1. For a cough people used garlic steeped in vinegar and on this account the people were as careful of garlic as of the rest of their crops.
    2. When a person had a sore throat a cure was sought by roasting potatoes, then putting them into a stocking and binding it around the throat.
    3. People applied "sour sam" leaves to wounds in order to stop the blood.
    4. For swollen jaws roasted chicken weed was used.
    5. For Jaundice, blue bell roots were boiled on milk which the person had afterwords to drink. A supply of the blue bell root used to be collected on Thursdays. Egg shells brushed into dust
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
        1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Kate Tighe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    An Doirín, Co. na Gaillimhe
    Informant
    Thomas Tiernan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cluain Fachna, Co. na Gaillimhe