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School: Mainistir Mhuigheó (C.) (roll number 14206)

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Mayo Abbey, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Siobhán Ní Fhinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0100, Page 107

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    box, and put them behind the rafter when they would be melted the ring worm would be gone.
    "Warts"
    If a person had warts on their hands and washed them with water that they would remain in a stone after a shower of rain, the warts would go.
    "Small pox"
    When a person would have small pox the cure was, to make a hole in the ground and put the person into it, and throw a few shovels of clay over them, ahen the person would come up the pox would be gone.
    "A bad sore"
    A man used to make a poulter of a lot of herbs to cure a bad sore such as cancer.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    K. Delaney
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    17
    Address
    Mayo Abbey, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    George Hughes
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    40
    Address
    Mayo Abbey, Co. Mayo