School: Enfield
- Location:
- Enfield, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Uí Dhomhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0246, Page 007
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- (continued from previous page)person's neck who has the sore throat. Do this for three days and the sore throat will get better.
- A cure for rheumatism is get a potato and put it in your pocket and carry it in your pocket every place you go. As the potato withers the rheumatism is supposed to gradually leave you.
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- The father of a middle aged man in this district tells the following tale of a happening when he was a boy.
His father, one spring, ploughed a field for oats. One late spring evening, when the field was sown, and the father resting inside by the fire, the(continues on next page)
