School: Clochar na Trócaire, Inis (roll number 7315)

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Inis, Co. an Chláir
Teacher:
Máire Ní Dhomhnalláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0610, Page 234

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0610, Page 234

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    To bath the feet in potatoe water is an old cure for sprains. Olive oil is another cure. People who suffer from tender feet bath them in salt water.
    Bogwater is a cure which the old people had for stiffness and another one was traingrease.
    Some old people used say that if you met a man or a woman by the name of Cassidy and asked him to dip his coat into a pail of water and if you rubbed it to the place that was stiff it would cure it. Marrow out of a bone is very good for stiffness.
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    The old people used say you should never throw the water....

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