School: Dún Beag (C.)

Location:
Doonbeg, Co. Clare
Teachers:
Eibhlín Ní Shúilleabháin Bean an Ághasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0626, Page 277

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0626, Page 277

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  1. 1. Salt in a stocking cures a sore throat.
    2. A cure for a bad stomach is to drink the juice of "costervane dearg".
    3. A lick from a dog cures a cut.
    4. Brown paper steeped in vinegar cures a headache.
    5. Slack lime and sweet oil is good for a burn.
    6. If a calf is suffering from a bad pain, make a knot nine times on its back- which is called "Rugad Peairte"
    7. Soap and sugar melted together cures a burn.
    8. Lime and linseed oil cures ring-worm.
    9. Green grass and a cobweb heals an open wound.
    10. Dog leaves cure nettle burns.
    11. A cure for the "cray scholar" is a person who never saw their father to breathe three times fasting on the child afflicted.
    12. To look at the green grass through a gold ring cures a stye.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
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