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School: Ahane (C.) Lisnagry (roll number 563)

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Ahane, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
L. T. Walsh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0524, Page 004

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    The old people believed that if you had sore eyes to look through a marrage ring three times and they would be cured
    There is a well in our field and they say that if you rubbed the water of this well to your eyes they would be cured if they were sore.
    They old people also believed that if you picked a sty with a gooseberrie thorn it would be cured
    It is said if you bathe sore eyes in cold tea black it cures them.
    Some people say that a fasting-spit rubbed once every day for three days would cure sore eyes.
    Mary Mc guire
    Barrington's Bride
    Lisnagry
    Bo Limerick
    There cures were told to me by:
    Mrs McGuire
    Barrington's Bridge
    Linsnagry
    Bo limerick
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. sore eyes (~94)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Mc Guire
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Barringtonsbridge, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mrs Mc Guire
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Barringtonsbridge, Co. Limerick