School: Errew G.N.S. (roll number 13261)
- Location:
- Errew, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Brígid Nic Eoin
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- (continued from previous page)consumption. The old people also say if a person had sore eyes and point the thorns of a gooseberry bush at them he would be cured. Goosegrease is good for sore feet or cuts, such as the cut of a stone or the cut of a slate. For a toothache a frog was used. The people used keep it to the tooth until it would be better. People give medicine to lambs made from soda and sugar. They also give garlick as a medicine for calves. They put it on the milk and the calf drinks the milk and he leaves the garlick after him. The galick that he leaves after him is used three times. Then it is burned. The old people say(continues on next page)
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- Eileen Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Female
