School: Naomh Feichín, Cros (roll number 7075)

Location:: Cross, Co. Mayo
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Pain in the ear: Roasted onion and apply to ear. Pain in the stomach: for an infant they would hold it by the feet and let the head hang down for a few seconds. Stone bruise: For a stone bruise on the foot there was a cure in a plant called Buachaill an Tighe which grows on the sides of houses. Mrs. Mahony, Cross, Claremorris, Co. Mayo
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Local Cures.
If a person had a toothache it was an old custom to get soda and hot milk. To give milk to a ferret and all that he would leave after him that he would not be able to drink, would be a cure for the whooping cough.
Mrs. O'Connor. Derries, Gross, Claremorris.

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