School: Cluainte (roll number 12404)
- Location:
- Cloontia, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Ní Riagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0117, Page 19
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“In former times the people cured...”
In former times the people cured most of their pains themselves, it was not running to the nearest town for doctor as it is nowadays.Sore eyes were cured by bathing them in black tea or by rubbing he first egg a black hen laid on them.
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“My mother told me when my grandmother had sore eyes...”
My mother told me when my grandmother had sore eyes she put down a clutch in March and the clutch came out in March and a first egg that a black pullet of that clutch would lay to rub the white of it to her eyes. (no title)
“When a person had a "sleamhnán" on his eye”
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- Teresa Mac Geever
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- Derrynabrock, Co. Mayo
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“Sore eyes were cured...”
Sore eyes were cured by bathing them in black tea every morning and putting a poultice of tea leaves on the sore eye going to bed at night.