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School: Star of the Sea, Glengivney (roll number 12334)

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Glennagiveny, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Brian Mac Giolla Easbuic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 277

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    on which garlic and soot are applied. This is a very rare disease.
    Cream is applied to hecked or feet to soothe them.
    "Wee still" the local name for "potteen" was often given to sheep as a cure for the fluke or poke disease.
    People in this district soothed their feet by washing them in moss water, or in salt water. Corns were cured in this manner.
    In olden times people in Glenagivney knew more about cures from herbs and plants than they know presently. Even old men do not remember some of the cures they know to be known by their mothers and fathers.
    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
    Kathleen Crumlish
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Dan Sweeney
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    73
    Address
    Glennagiveny, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Neil Crumlish
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    40