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School: Naomh Angela, Caisleán an Bharraigh (roll number 14410)

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Castlebar, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
An tSr. M. Muireadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0089, Page 459

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    Lumps on the neck = get some course salt and heat it. Place it on a woolen sock and put it round the neck. It will take away lumps
    A cure for a sore eye
    If you have a sore eye go out in the morning to a rock near by, and if the dew has fallen on the rock bathe your eye with it.
    A cure for a sore throat
    Boil some buttermilk, and put a small grain of oaten meal in it. When well boiled drink the whey.
    A cure for a sprained foot.
    Get some vinegar and flannel. Heat the vinegar and steep the flannel in it. Then put it on your foot at bed-time, and it will be better in the morning.
    A cure for a boil.
    Get some boiling water, and a clean cloth and bathe the boil in it.
    Rose Dunne
    I got these from Miss Margaret Gresham
    No 77 Mc Hale Road
    Castlebar
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rose Dunne
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Miss Margaret Gresham
    Gender
    Female