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School: Páirc na nDriseóg (roll number 14294)

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Séamus Ó Conaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0083, Page 089

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    A sore
    Get a raw potatoe. Scrape it out put it on the sore. Make a poultice and put it with your tooth.
    Ring Worm
    Get a gold ring, put it on the ring-worm.
    Biles
    Put a poultice with the biles. Put ink around it and it will not spread. Drink sulphur and milk it will stop them.
    A cold.
    Drink sgalteen. Sgalteen is made by boiling butter-milk and a small grain of oat-meal. Put it down to boil. When it is boiled, put butter and sugar in it.
    Margaret Mulry
    Dangan
    Deeren
    Ballyglunin
    Got from my mother Delia Mulry age 47
    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
    Margaret Mulry
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Dangan Oughter, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Delia Mulry
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    47
    Address
    Dangan Oughter, Co. Galway