School: Creganbane (roll number 14079)

Location:
Cregganbaun, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Dáithí Mag Réill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137B, Page 26_020

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137B, Page 26_020

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  1. (continued from previous page)
    If a person had a heart burn, to put a grain of soda in a drop of water and to drink it the heart burn would go.
    If you had the chin cough to drink asses milk and the chin cough will go.
    If you had a bad head-ache to go to a man that would measure your head up and across the forehead and you will have to get it measured three times on Monday, on Wednesday and Monday again. Then the head-ache would go.
    If a person had a bad appetite to boil the bark of the oak and to drink the juice he would
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Pat Malley
    Gender
    Male