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School: Cinn Mhara (B)

Location:
Kinvarra, Co. Galway
Teacher:
S.P. Ó Maoldúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0049, Page 0017

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    1. Chin-cough
    To keep walking until you meet a man with a white horse and ask him for a cure.
    2. Measles.
    To drink ferrets milk
    3.Consumption
    To go across to other countries for fresh air
    4. Warts.
    To find a cow-dung in a field and the water that is on top of it to rub it to the wart.
    5. Flu
    To drink salts
    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
    Máirtín Ó Caomhanach
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    14
    Address
    Mountscribe or Moneyscreebagh, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Máirtín Ó Caomhanach
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    80
    Address
    Mountscribe or Moneyscreebagh, Co. Galway