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School: Loch an Toirc (roll number 9584)

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Loughatorick South, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Bean Uí Mhuirgheasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0050, Page 0297

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  1. Local Cures (continued)

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    There is many cures for toothache. This is suppose to be true. Get a hairy maggot and put him into a bottle and cork it tight and bury it the clay. One of the cures for taking out a thorn is to get a foxes tongue and put it on the sore and it will draw out the thorn.
    A cure for the whooping cough if you see a man with a grey horse go and him if he has any cure for the whooping cough what whatever he will say is supposed to be the cure
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Julia Collins
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Loughatorick North, Co. Galway