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Liam Ó Breandáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0015, Page 143

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    For sore eyes they used to cure them by bathing them in warm tea, and for a sty on the eye the old people used to get ten gooseberry thorns and stab the sty with nine of the thorns and burn the tenth, and afterwards they used to throw away the thorns.
    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
    Kitty Donnellan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lahaghglass South, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mrs Donnellan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lahaghglass South, Co. Galway