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School: Mullach na Sídhe (C.) (roll number 15426)

Location:
Fairymount, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Bean Uí Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0239, Page 194

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    Local Cures
    Rash
    Unslated butter + sulphur mixed on the sore every morning + it will cure the rash.
    Head-Ache
    The cure for a head-ache is black tea drunk immediately on getting the pain
    Sore-Throat
    (Fi) Five potatoes put in a stocking + tied round your neck for one night and another cure is salt + chicken weed put in a stocking + put round your neck
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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
    Nóra Ní Bhéirn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Curreentorpan, Co. Roscommon