School: The Vale (An Gleann)

Location:
Leiter, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
S. Ó Brolcháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1010, Page 410

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1010, Page 410

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  1. There are various cures for the whooping cough in children. A plant called Our Lady's Thistle is boiled and given to the child to give relief.
    A Blacksmith whose father and grand-father were blacksmiths can cure it.
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  3. Sometimes as a result of a cold in the head the lips became inflamed or pimples arise around the mouth and nose. The old peopled cured that by casting a spit on the threshold stone of the door before the victim
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