School: Rahugh (roll number 12905)
- Location:
- Ráth Aodha, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: P. Ó Maonghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0732, Page 191
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- (continued from previous page)would melt they rubbed it on the warts.
- Sore throat.
In olden times people had no cures like nowadays. When anyone had a sore throth they used to rost potatoes or rost salt and put it round the neck.Burns.
Anyone who wanted to cure burns used to lick an Arc Luachra and they would be able to cure burns. - Collector
- Michael Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kiltober, Co. na hIarmhí
- Informant
- Michael Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kiltober, Co. na hIarmhí
- Stye in the eye.
In this parish long ago they had strange ways of curing diseases. When they had a stye in the eye they used to point nine gooseberrybush thorns at it for nine days.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Rose M. Harte
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Monasset, Co. na hIarmhí
- Informant
- Joseph Harte
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Monasset, Co. na hIarmhí
