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School: Carnaross, Kells (roll number 3852)

Location:
Carnaross, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0705, Page 019

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    The mumps.
    Get a tongs and put it round your neck and walk round the pig sty three times saying mucna mucna seo chugat na leicne.
    The whooping cough.
    If two people are of the same name before they get married to each other they have the cure of the whooping cough.
    Cure of headaches and toothaches.
    There is a well in Kieran and it cures headaches and toothaches.
    Cure of a sty on the eye.
    Get ten thorns of a gooseberry bush and throw one of them away and point the other nine to your eye and bless yourself.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English