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School: Cnoc an Éin, Cuinche

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Knockanean, Co. Clare
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Máire, Bean Uí Bhraonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0594, Page 171

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    7. “Old Cures.”
    A stye- To look through a marriage ring.
    Whooping Cough- To meet a man with a white horse and to eat a potato if he tells you.
    Toothache- To go to Toureen and there was a tree above there and it would cure it.
    Warts- To get a piece of meat and to bury it in the manure heap. When the meat will be getting hard the bad the wart will be going away.
    Margaret O’connell.
    Told by Michael O’Connell: Ag 45 yrs.
    Knockogan.
    Ennis
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