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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na mBuillí

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Strokestown, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
An tSr. M. Olivia
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0253, Page 270

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    about two miles from Elphin.
    Long ago when the people got a cut of a wound they would go out and pull something up out of the ground and put it on the cut, it would be cured in a day.
    The seventh son of a family is supposed to have a cure for ringworm.
    When two people of the same name marry, they have a cure for yellow jaundice.
    If you leave a shilling on a heap of stones, it is a cure for warts. Or if you rub a black snail that crosses your path on the wart, it will cure it.
    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
    Cairmel Nic Crainn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Strokestown, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Bean Uí Mhic Crainn
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    52
    Occupation
    Bean siopadóra
    Address
    Strokestown, Co. Roscommon