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School: Cootehill (B)

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Cootehill, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
W. Healy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1018, Page 147b

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1018, Page 147b

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  1. Famine Times 1846-7 (continued)

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    The people died in great numbers in the fields and along the roads. Sickness followed the Famine and in some place whole families were wiped out.
    Two men were appointed to go to Dundalk for the meal.
    Cures.
    Rickets:- A cure for rickets was to get a blacksmith to bath the child in water taken fro a south-running stream and then to put it under an ass three times.
    Warts:- A cure for warts was to get a blacksmith to put the person suffering from it on an anvil and to hit it three times saying some words.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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