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School: Doire an Daimh (Derrindaffe) (roll number 10976)

Location:
Doire an Daimh, Co. Chiarraí
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Foghludha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0410C, Page 14_030

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    to doctors because doctors were scarce and because they had a good deal of their own cures. For a cut they would make use of cobwebs. When a person sprained any part of his body the first thing he would do was to pound some comfrey, and put the juice of it to the sprain and then rub it well. A man with a white horse was supposed to have a great for chin cough. People used to wash sore eyes in holy wells and they used to wash warts in water out of a hollow in
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    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
        1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Quille
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Doire an Daimh, Co. Chiarraí