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School: Gort an tSiúrdáin (roll number 14534)

Location:
Gort Mhic Shiurdáin, Co. Mhaigh Eo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Módhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0106, Page 600

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    The cure for a toothache is to put a bit of bluestone in the tooth and it bursts it. The cure for a headache is a little grain of soda mixed with water and taken to relieve the pain. The cure for a sore throat roasted potato and salted butter applied to the affected part. A snail is supposed to be the cure for anybody suffering from warts. Get a snail and kill him. Then rub him off the warts and hang him on a thorny bush beyond a mearing wall and when he is withered it is said that the warts should have disappeared also garlic soot and soap mixed together is a very good cure for a boil.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
        1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    David Moughan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cathair na mBroc, Co. Mhaigh Eo
    Informant
    Thomas Moughan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cathair na mBroc, Co. Mhaigh Eo