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School: Cilltighearnáin/Kiltiernan (roll number 11812)

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Kiltiernan West, Co. Galway
Teacher:
S. Ó Beirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033C, Page 08_008

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    The old people have many old cures. The following are some of the cures they have. If you have a sore eye look through a gold ring three times they say that it will cure it. If you have consumption and that if you eat parsley that it will cure it. If you have blood-poision and you eat parsley that it will cure it. They say that if a person has the chin-cough and if you keep walking until you
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maighréad Ní Fhathaigh
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Michael Lane
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    72
    Address
    Lavallyconor, Co. Galway