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School: Eanach Mór (C.) (roll number 12427)

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Annaghmore, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Caitlín, Bean Uí Mhiadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0187, Page 245

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    For a cough cut turnips in thin slices, cover with sugar. Drink the juice. Boil some new milk, put a little grain of nitre on it, this is a cure for the same.
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    For a cut, get the root of a white lily. Pound it up very finely after it has been washed. Then place it on the wound.
    The soup got from blackbirds flesh is a cure for the chin-cough.
    A cure for a burn, take the skin from a bultery and get the soft skin inside. Mix it with unsalted butter and sweet oil and boil it. When cold rub it on the burn
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Kate Brien
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    62
    Address
    Kilfree, Co. Sligo