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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 0373

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    the soup is a cure for chin-cough or to meet a man with a white horse ask him for a cure, if he gives you any cure the chin-cough will go.
    Head-ache - A cure for a head-ache is to measure ones head each way with a tape.
    Boils - There are two wells in this district in which boils are cured. One is where three parishes are joining and the other where three properties are joining.
    Pains - The people believe in this district that by going through holes in walls or ditches that certain pains would be removed.
    Hicough- It is a cure for it to drink out of a cup without putting ones nose into it or to get frightened by someone who was speaking.
    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
    Mary Mannion
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Patrick Mannion
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Tonmoyle, Co. Galway