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School: An Clochar, Port Omna

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Portumna, Co. Galway
Teacher:
An tSr. M. Lorcáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0057, Page 0399

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    from every ailment. It was the custom of the old people to walk bare-footed to the holy-well and then to say the stations and take some of the holy-water from the well. Many ailments are known to be cured this way, not immediately, but after a very short time.
    Written by:- Ita Keighrey,
    Clonfert Ave,
    Portumna
    Obtained from:- Nurse Glynn,
    St. Joseph's Rd.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    A ferret's leavings was used as a remedy for the whooping cough, also if you asked a man driving a grey horse for a cure for the whooping cough, what
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