School: Clún na Gaoithe (roll number 8740)

Location:
Cloongee, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Héaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0125, Page 431

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  1. XML School: Clún na Gaoithe
  2. XML Page 431
  3. XML “Ringworm”
  4. XML “Lumbago”
  5. XML “Pain in the Back”
  6. XML “Warts”
  7. XML “Sprained Ankle”

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  1. The seventh son of a family has a cure of ring worm. He leaves his hand on the sore and it cures it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. The cure for lumbago is a mustard plaster. Get some mustard or two pieces of swanskin and tie it round the back and it will cure it or or get mustard and linseed meal and make a poultice of it and put it to the back and it will soon cure it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  3. The seventh daughter of a family is said to have a cure for a pain in the back. Se she leaves her hand on the back and the pain goes.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  4. This is a cure for worts. If there is a hole in a rock where there is water, and to wash the worts well with it they will soon go. There is another cure for worts that is to steal a bit of meat out of a house to hide it in the dung pu pit and when the meat would be rotten the worts will go.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. warts (~307)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Mary Dunleavy
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ummoon, Co. Mayo
  5. The cure for a sprained ankle is hold the foot under a water fall and the the swelling will go down. There is another cure for a sprained ankle. Go to the weaver and ask for a sprain
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.