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School: Fahan (roll number 14479)

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Fahan, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Cáitlín L. Nig Uidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1109, Page 312

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    Rose Noble is a weed. People used to get the roots and rub them on themselves to cure erysipelas. They used to call it the Rose. There is a crimson rose tree in our garden, which my great, great grand-Aunt used the flower for curing the same disease by mixing it with butter.
    Dan Mc Naught once had a jag in his hand and it started to swell. He put a poultice of cow manure on it. One day he was at our house and he showed it to me, he had taken the poultice off it. It had swelled up
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