School: Cill a' Ghaimhrín (Killgevrin) (roll number 12002)

Location:
Kilgevrin, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Proinsíos P. Ó Doláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0042, Page 0372

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  2. The old people in each district have cures for certain disease. They can cure a person by some weed or by certain leaves. The most common around this district are the following:
    Warts - It is a cure for warts to wash them in boiling potato water or dip them in water which one finds in a stone without looking for it, or to rub some chicken weed on them.
    Toothache - long ago it was custom for men to show on sunday. it would be a cure for tooth-ache for them to shave on saturday.
    Chin-Cough - To catch a hedge boil it and drink
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