School: Gort an Tuair (roll number 13467)
- Location:
- Gortatoor, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Áine Nic Oirealla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0141, Page 447
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- The people long ago in Gallowshill had no doctors like we have now, instead they themselves knew a cure for every disease. Here are some of the cures:-
When the children used to take the chin-cough, the people cured it in this way.
They used to put the child three times under the ass's stomach, and he was given a mouthful of the ass's milk to drink, each time. They also has another cure, and her it is.
They used to ask a man riding on a white horse, what was good for the chin-cough, and whatever he would tell them to take, would cure it.
They also had a cure for(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Kate Healy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowmacshane, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowmacshane, Co. Mayo
