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School: Croghan

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Croghan, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Domhnall Ó Módhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 171

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  1. Local Marriage Customs (continued)

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  2. Local Cures

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    Long ago when the people had a toothache they held a coal to their jaw or to smoke a pipe was another great cure.
    Whooping cough was cured by a ferrets leavings]. The old people said also to eat bread belonging to a husband and wife of the same name was also a cure for it.
    There is a stone on Paddy O Haras field where St Patrick knelt hundreds of years ago and the water that
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