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School: An Cheathrú Mhór

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Carrowmore, Co. Mayo
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P. Ó Glacáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0141, Page 117

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    and take a few mouth-fulls of salt water and drink it and that was supposed to kill the worms.
    Corns :- The people long ago used suffer a lot with corns and some of them had cures. This is one of them :- The person who had the corn would go to the sea-shore and pull a living "báirneac" off a rock and faster it on their corn and the báirneac being alive would pull out the corn.
    Kathleen Duggan
    St Patricks NS
    Carrowmore - Lacken
    Ballina
    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
    Kathleen Duggan
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Miss Ellen Franklin
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    52
    Occupation
    Domestic worker
    Address
    Carrowmore, Co. Mayo