School: Críoch (roll number 13919)
- Location:
- Creagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Neachtain
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- Chin coughWhen children used to get the chin cough in olden times they used to have some cures. Some people used to feed ferrets with bread and milk and what ever they would refuse to eat they would put it in a cap and take to the sick child and make the child eat it all so after three days it would be better.Mrs. Naughton,
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- Mrs Naughton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Atticorra, Co. Galway
- In a field near the road that passes to Achlone in the village of Birchgrove there is a little hill and on the hill there is a bush. This bush is withered and gone now. But the hill is still there in rememberance of a man who was hanged there during the time of the the Fenians. This man(continues on next page)
