School: Cluain Dá Iomaire (roll number 14801)
- Location:
- Cloondahamper (Brown), Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0080, Page 285
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- (continued from previous page)cold tea without milk or sugar.
10. Wild Fire. Rub gold or write name around it with ink.
11. Colic. Shake white washed in hot milk and drink.
12. Dun Dots. Put roasted potatoes to swelling.
13. Worms. A few drops of turpentine on a lump of sugar.
14. Sore throat. Put a stocking of warm salt to swelling.
15. Measles. Nettle tea will bring out rash.
16. If a person a ringworm he should cut of all his hair.
17. Rheumatism. A green leaf which grows a spring well cures it.
18. A leaf shaped like a diamond which grows among the crops draws corruption out of boils.
- Collector
- Joe Fahy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tigreenaun, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Lyons
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Cottage, Co. Galway
