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School: Naomh Pádraig, Carrowmena (roll number 16787)

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Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Pádraig S. Ó Cathain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 352

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    was a good cure for sore eyes. A stye was said to be cured by aiming the thorn of a gooseberry bush at it nine times, and saying each time, "Go away, or I'll stab you."
    A snail put on a wart was supposed to remove the wart , as also if the juice of St. Patrick's Distaff were applied to it. The water out of St. Colmcille's Well in Moville is also said to cure warts.
    To smoke dried coldfoot is said to cure asthma.
    The old people say that flour mixed with buttermilk will cure nettle stings.
    Boiled dock roots, mixed with sugar was a cure for a cold, as also camphor cut into whiskey was said to be another cure for a cold.
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