School: Cootehill (B)
- Location:
- Cootehill, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: W. Healy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1018, Page 147b
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- (continued from previous page)The people died in great numbers in the fields and along the roads. Sickness followed the Famine and in some place whole families were wiped out.Two men were appointed to go to Dundalk for the meal.Cures.
Rickets:- A cure for rickets was to get a blacksmith to bath the child in water taken fro a south-running stream and then to put it under an ass three times.Warts:- A cure for warts was to get a blacksmith to put the person suffering from it on an anvil and to hit it three times saying some words.
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