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School: An Cheapach, Askeaton

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Cappagh, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Henry Mulligan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0502, Page 179

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    Long ago people of my district had a good deal cures for severe ailments. The cure for sore feet was to put a cabbage leaf into the shoe or to go out for seven mornings in the dewy grass, and walk around it.
    Ringworm is also a very severe ailment, and it can be cured by a woman in my district. Roast an onion and put it up
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