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School: Baile Rua (Buachaillí)

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Ballyroe, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Pádraig Mac Crosáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0014, Page 059

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  1. Old Houses (continued)

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    not to be looking for it and to rub it on the warts three times and have it back in the same place again. This is another cure for warts. When one would get up in the morning if he put the first spit he would have in his mouth if he put it on the warts it is said that it would cure them.
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  2. Local Cures

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    Here are some of the old cures I have heard of. This is a cure for Yellow Jaundice, to boil the roots of cowslips and drink the juice and it will cure it. This is a cure it. This is a cure for a sty in his or her eye to bathe it with black tea and it will cure it. It is said when there are seven brothers without any sister
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Martin Smyth
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Corralough, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mr Edward Smyth
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60