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School: Doohamlet

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Doohamlat, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
P. Mac an Bháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0936, Page 278

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    keep it to it until the person died.
    Sore eye's
    When a person had a sore eye in olden times if they had the good luck to find a stone with a hole in it and water in the hole. When they would rub the water on the sore eye and it was one of the cures in the olden times.
    Stine.
    Any person whose father and mother is alive they can cure the stine by taking nine thorns of a gooseberry bush and pointing them at the stine.
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    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
    Pat Morgan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Doohamlat, Co. Monaghan