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School: Cill Choinnigh (roll number 13563)

Location:
Kilkenny, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Séamus Mac Giolla Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1053, Page 206

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    The seventh son has a cure for evil. The cure for rheumatism is boil sea-weed and massage the affected parts several times in succession.
    Winnie Boyce
    Mr Edward Boyce
    Mulnamina
    Glenties
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    The cure old people had for the toothache was to put baking soda into the tooth. The cure for the earache was to put a hot cloth into the ear that the pain was not in.
    Donkey's milk was a cure for whooping cough.
    Maggie O'Donnell
    Mr Edward Boyce
    Mulnamina
    Glenties
    90 years
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maggie O' Donnell
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr Edward Boyce
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Mulnamin Beg, Co. Donegal