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School: Coiscéim (C.), Átha Treasna (roll number 10079)

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Newmarket, Co. Cork
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Máire Bean Uí Nialláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0356, Page 220

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  1. Local Cures

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    There was a cure for a person in bad health to was themselves in water taken where three boundaries meet.
    The cure for Rheumatism is to wash the affected part of the body with the water that washed a dead person.
    There is a cure for sore eyes to wash them with the dew found on the grass on a May morning.
    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
    Hannah Keeffe
    Gender
    Female

  2. Local Cures

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    A cure for Thrush in children was first to keep a gander fasting for twenty four hours then to put the ganders bill into the child's mouth and cause the gander to screech inside in the child's mouth. That used act as a cure.
    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
    Nora Sullivan
    Gender
    Female