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School: Baile an tSagairt (roll number 13985)

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Ballysaggart, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Prionnsias Ua Coilín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1039, Page 39

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    Cures for a Sore Eye
    1. It is a cure to drain black tea from a teapot and wash the sore eye with it.
    2. For weak sore eyes it is a cure to wash them with a bowlful of blue stone water (Solution of common water and Sulphate of copper).
    3. For a sore eye it is a cure to pull nine gooseberry jags of a gooseberry bush. Keep them for nine nights. Then throw them all away only one and rub the remaining one on the sore eye every night for nine nights.
    4. It is a cure to take a pinch of snuff and snuff until your eyes run water.
    5. It is a cure to wash the eyes in baking soda water.
    Cure for Hiccough
    1. Argue with the person having it that he stole something.
    2. Study your nails.
    3. Give them a sudden scare.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Joe Mc Ginley
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    73
    Address
    Ballysaggart, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mary Mc Callig
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    67
    Address
    Ballysaggart, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Pat Mc Gowan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Ballysaggart, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Rob Corregan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    72
    Address
    Ballysaggart, Co. Donegal