School: Clún na Gaoithe (roll number 8740)

Location:
Cloongee, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Héaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0125, Page 430

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0125, Page 430

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  4. XML “Cancer”
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  1. The cure for a headache long ago was to get the head measured by a certain man. At that time there was a certain man in each parish who could measure the head. The moment it was measured the head-ache was said to go. There is another cure for a headache that is to make a pillow from cammomile and to lie on that for a night and the heachache will go.
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  2. Cancer nowadays is quite a common disease and it is almost (incurneab) incurable by doctors.They cut it away but the roots remain there is a woman in Eniscrone named Miss Cowell and she has a white poultice and she claps it to the and draws it out from the roots.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. boils (~39)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Mary Dunleavy
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ummoon, Co. Mayo