School: Srónaill (Shronell) (roll number 15008)

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1. Local Marriages - Old Customs (continued)

   

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   and they have a big breakfast. The people who are married when coming out the hotel door they throws up a big heap of confety, There are other marriage customs, In making the matches there are money given as a fortune and fortune means a lot of money. Some people give stock such as bulls and sheep. Old people say that it is unlucky to get married on the month May. And they say that the marriage dosent hold so long as they used to before. The old people say that themselves got married in the houses because there was no churches.

   

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2. Old Cures

   

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   1. Toothache: The old cures for toothache was a green herb growing in a field. 2. Holy well: There is a well in Lattin in Jim Breen's fields, which there is a cure got from. 3. Buns: The cure for burns is loral leaves plaster. 4. Scalds: The cure for scalds is a sup of oil. 5. Whooping cough: The cure for the whooping cough is a herb growing 6. Tethers: The cure for tethers is white corps [?] and unsalted lard 7. Headaches: The cures for headaches is hot drinks.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   John Nash

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Deerpark, Co. Tipperary