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School: Glynn (C.) (roll number 4602)

Location:
Glynn, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Maighréad Ní Giolla Eoin
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    An onion cut small and rubbed on your corn is a cure for a person who one.
    The gay broom plant was a cure for rheumatism.
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  2. Local Cures

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    In olden times the people had many cures for their ailments.
    Scalded buttermilk and linseed oil is a good cure for a cold.
    The juice of rotten apples or house leeks is a cure for sore eyes.
    To cure a pain in your back is to go through a hole in a rock or through a hole in a wall.
    A cure for any sore is to catch an evit and to lick it before it looses its tail, and cut it in nine pieces behind your back.
    There is a big cross in Adamstown, and if you could span it you never have a
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