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School: An Teampoll Uachtair (roll number 8747)

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Upperchurch, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Domhnall Ua Riain
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    Crawling through a window is said to be a cure for rheumatism. Crawling under a briar will cure fever, and under an ass will cure chin cough. Another cure for the chin cough is to give the patient whatever is recommended by the first person seen passing the house on a white horse on asking him the cure for the chin cough. He usually recommends three drinks of hot milk.
    Tie a ribbon - a red one - to the latch of the door on St. Bridget's Eve. It will cure sore eyes. Put a worm in a poultice applied to a cut. It will extract the badness. Food left after the ferret cures chin cough and whooping cough. Rub snail to wart, and hang out the snail. Wart disappears as snail withers or wash the wart with lodged water or water out of a blacksmith's
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Freddy Ryan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cooga, Co. Tipperary
    Collector
    Joseph Ryan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cooga, Co. Tipperary
    Collector
    Michael Burke
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Shevry, Co. Tipperary
    Collector
    Michael Shanahan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Upperchurch, Co. Tipperary
    Collector
    Patricia Kinane
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Moher, Co. Tipperary
    Collector
    Patrick Burke
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Shevry, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Bab Stapleton
    Age
    35
    Address
    Cooga, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Denis Shanahan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Upperchurch, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Joe Ryan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Thurles, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    John Burke
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Shevry, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Michael Burke
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Shevry, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mrs John Quinlan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    55
    Address
    Carew, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mrs Patrick Kinane
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    30
    Address
    Moher, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Patrick Kinane
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    40
    Address
    Moher, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Tom Ryan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Cooga, Co. Tipperary