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School: Cluain Tuirc (C.)

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Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Máire Ní Gharaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 052

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    Stings- apply blue on ink.
    Warts- Rub a black snail to it and in few says the wart and the snail will be withered.
    Soar Eye- Bathe your eye with nine drops of water that never fell to the ground and point a thorn off a gooseberry bush to your eye seven times.
    Mot in Eye- Bless yourself and say "jesus many send it may fall to the ground.
    The cold- Bail garlic and take it also glyceine and sugar.
    Hiccough- Give a person a sudden fright
    Hoarseness- Honey
    Pimples- Mix dock leaves saly and water. Buttle. Drink each night for 9 nights ~ Teresa Faughnen
    Thermalism- Boiled hemlock. Celery eaten uncooked.
    Jaundice- Toasted inseeds from wood - May Noíley.
    Kidney Trouble- Boiled Slóne crop, Boiled Root of dandelion.
    Drawing healing- Boiled luénep. Soap + sugar breadswale fat baem mustard and lineecd parallices. Lot water formentations
    A Cold -Furneh sliced and sugar between. Whey. Buttermilk lemon duck Cultsfoot, limewater boiled roots of dandelion. Butter + sugar.
    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
    Peggy Newton
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    15
    Address
    Moherrevan, Co. Leitrim