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School: Cill Mhíde (C.), Caisleán Nua (roll number 7959)

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Kilmeedy, Co. Limerick
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Eibhlín Ní Bhraonáin
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    Sore eyes may be cured in many ways by washing in black tea or if you found a lough of water in the middle of a hill, and wahsed your eyes in it they will be cured. Some people had lots of cures for sore teeth but the best is to smoke a pipe and hold the smoke in your mough for a while as the smoke would draw the bad water from the gums. A cure for a sore throat is to heat a grain of white flour in the eaves of an oven and leave it get brown and put it into a stocking and tie it around your neck and it will relieve the hoarseness.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Donegan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballinruane, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    William Donegan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    85
    Address
    Kilmeedy, Co. Limerick