School: Killuran / Cill Úráin (roll number 14658)
- Location:
- Killuran, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Thomas Mc Inerney
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- There were very few doctors and nurses long ago. They cured diseases in a different manner that by which we cure them now. The cure they for warts was to put their hand into a hole of water in a stone. This stone was called a wart stone. The cure for the whooping-cough was to follow a man with a white horse. They would call after him, "man of the white horse, what would cure the whooping-(continues on next page)
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- There were very few doctors and nurses long ago. They cured diseases in a different manner that by which we cure them now. The cure they for warts was to put their hand into a hole of water in a stone. This stone was called a wart stone. The cure for the whooping-cough was to follow a man with a white horse. They would call after him, "man of the white horse, what would cure the whooping-(continues on next page)
