School: Na Creaga
- Location:
- Creggs, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Breandáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0015, Page 026
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- (continued from previous page)chicken-weed, and put it to the sprains.
For a pain in the in the side, the old people used to heat some salt, until it it would become brown, and mix it with broken flax or wool, and put it to the side.
They used to use turpentine or lamp oil for rheumatism. For burns they used to use bog moss or sweet oil and lime juice.
When the people used to have a pain in their ear, they used to dip a piece of wool in castor oil and warm it in their ear and if they had a pain in their hand, they used to wear a black, tight, silk,(continues on next page)
