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School: Ballyfeeny (roll number 9468)

Location:
Kilglass, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Cáit, Bean Uí Mhurthuile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0255, Page 331

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    it from rising.
    A Wart
    A cure for a wart is to put your finger in a pool of water on a rock and put the water on the wart.
    A Stye
    A cure for a stye if to get ten thorns off a gooseberry bush, and point nine of them to it and throw away the tenth.
    Sore eyes
    To squeeze the juice of a house-leek into your eye would cure it if it was sore.
    A Swelling
    Chicken-weed is a cure for a swelling.
    Bruise
    A cure for a bruise is to put a rotten apple on it.
    A Bite
    If a person gets a bite from a dog, a cure is to shoot the dog and put a hair off the dog on the wound.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Flannery
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Pollymount, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mr Flannery
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Pollymount, Co. Roscommon