School: Clún na Gaoithe (roll number 8740)
- Location:
- Cloongee, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Héaráin
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- XML Page 431
- XML “Ringworm”
- XML “Lumbago”
- XML “Pain in the Back”
- XML “Warts”
- XML “Sprained Ankle”
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- The seventh son of a family has a cure of ring worm. He leaves his hand on the sore and it cures it.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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- Informant
- Mrs Mary Dunleavy
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ummoon, Co. Mayo