School: Cloigeann

Location:
Cleggan, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Seán Ó Fathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0004, Page 320

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0004, Page 320

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    Headache: Drink very strong tea.

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    makes is put on the burn.
    toothach; Put a bit of blue-stone in the bad tooth and it cracks the tooth into pieces.
    a child dying; If a child get cold and is dying. if a person that never saw his father blows into the childs mouth through a gold ring he will be cured.
    Cuts; If a person gets cut and is bleeding the feather of a white hen will stopp the blood.
    The sevent daughter; The sevent daughter of a family can cure sore eyes.
    ringworm; Ink is put around it and it stops from spreading.
    Bronchitis; The cure for this diseas is to pigs lard on the chest.
    Sore hands; If a persons hands cracks and gets sore. cart greece rubbed on them will cure them.
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    The cures the people has for a hooping cough is asses milk.

    The cures the people has for a hooping cough is asses milk. They have also a cure for a headache is to take two or three aspros and a full cup of water.
    The cures at Blessed wells; if
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. whooping-cough (~234)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Pat Ward
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    62
    Address
    Cleggan, Co. Galway