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School: Drom na Gráinsighe (roll number 13280)

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Droim na Gráinsí, Co. Shligigh
Teacher:
Seán Mac Giolla Luaithrinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0186, Page 187

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    In ancient times the people of Ireland used certain plants to cure certain ailments. A small little herb bearing a pretty little red flower is boiled in new milk with sugar is used as a cure for measles. It is growing round my house. The roots of small nettle are prepared in the same way and given as a cure for the whooping cough chicken pox.
    To cure whooping cough use made of a frog. The frog is buried in a cannister for seven says under the ground. If the frog is alive on the seventh day the child will recover before nine days.
    If a child ailing from whooping cough drinks milk or eats food left behind by a ferret he will not go into severe
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    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
        1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Lavin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Droim na Gráinsí, Co. Shligigh
    Informant
    Michael Lavin
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Droim na Gráinsí, Co. Shligigh