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School: Coracrin

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Corracrin, Co. Monaghan
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E. Ní Dhuibhghlinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0960, Page 076

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0960, Page 076

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  1. Local Churnings (continued)

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    staff and lifts it up and down in order to churn the milk. If a neighbour happens to come in daring the time of churning, the say good luck to the work, or God bless the work and taking the churn stuff., saying, I must leave the weight of myself of butter on the churn.
    Elizabeth Savage Tully Emyvale
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. Local Cures

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    A cure for a cough.
    Take equal parts of sliced raw turnip and suger mixed together and set it in a vessel over night in the morning take three table spoonfulls fasting for three mornings in succession.
    Cure for mumps
    Put on Asses haltar on the persons head and lead them across South running water three times in the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost.
    Tom Mc Guire Emyvale has
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    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
    Elizabeth Savage
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tully, Co. Monaghan