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School: O' Connor Don

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Cluain Banbh, Co. Ros Comáin
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Mícheál Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0247, Page 040

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    Local Cures
    There are a great man cures in this District. Some of these are Ass's milk is a cure for the chincough. Slime from a boghole is a cure for a burn. Ivy leaf is a cure for a corn. House leak is a cure for a wart. Garlic boiled with milk is a cure for a cough. White bread boiled is a cure for a sore. Roasted leather and butter mixed is a cure for a spot where the hair has fallen off on man or beast. Sulphur and fat mixed is a cure for rash or ringworm. Cold tea is a cure for a sore eye. Cream is a cure for crac. A string of silk is a cure for talach. If there are seven sons in a family with no daughter born in between them the youngest has a cure for ringworm. Boiled butter milk and sugar is a cure
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
        1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joseph Gorman
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cluain Suca, Co. Ros Comáin
    Informant
    Thomas Gorman
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cluain Suca, Co. Ros Comáin