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School: Feevagh (roll number 9517)

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Feevagh, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Seán Ó Bhaldraithe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0269D, Page 05_021

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    his hand on the affected place. He does this only on Mondays, and Thursdays.
    Boils are cured by putting this on them a poultice made by mixing soft sugar with common yellow soap; and pounding them up together.
    A thorn from a white-thorn bush which grows at a spot where "three parishes meet" will also cure a boil, if the person with the boil goes the said bush, plucks a thorn and points it at the boil.
    A Sty on the eye is cured by plucking ten thorns off any gooseberry bush and then pointing them, one by one, at
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Mulligan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrowntarriff, Co. Roscommon