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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na mBuillí

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Strokestown, Co. Roscommon
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An tSr. M. Olivia
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    About twenty years ago, in the townland of Corraslira, there lived a little girl named Egan. She was about twelve years of age and was tenderly loved by all her neighbours and friends. She was a very good scholar and this made her parents love her more deeply.
    At last she got the whooping cough and was very sick. This annoyed her parents very much as there was no curing of it. The little girl became so bad as that she could eat nothing and she knew none of her friends.
    The doctor came but he said he could do nothing for her, that she would have to die. All the people
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Thomas Kelly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Occupation
    Feirmeoir
    Address
    Corraslira, Co. Roscommon