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School: Dangan (C.) (roll number 7499)

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Dangan, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Maighréad Ní Fhógartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 194

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  1. Local Cures

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rosaleen Hughes
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Margaret Duffy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Summerhill, Co. Meath

  2. Local Cures

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    It is said that if you have a toothache and put a pin in the Moy well the toothache would go. Others say if you tie garlic on your wrist it would go. Washing soda is also a cure for toothache.
    A spoonful of sweet oil heated on a spoon is good for an ear ache. The juice of an ash stick is also a cure.
    A cure for a sty is to get a gooseberry thorn and put it to the eye three times
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