School: An Clochar, Dún an Ochta
- Location:
- Eyrecourt, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr. Kostka
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- XML “Local Cures - Stings of Insects”
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- XML “Local Cures - Cuts or Wounds or Bruises”
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- (continued from previous page)Laundry blue possess the same properties.Alice Staunton, Redmount
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- Collector
- Olive Reynolds
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Feaghmore Oughter, Co. Galway
- SwellingsGoose grease is a very good cure for swellings.
This grease is rubbed into the affected parts and generally cures.Plenty of old Irish people preserve this grease and depend more upon it than on a doctor. Mary Kenny
Redmount - Cuts or wounds or bruisesParaffin Oil is a cure for these. A spiders web put on a cut is supposed to heal the(continues on next page)
