School: Breaffy (roll number 15555)
- Location:
- Breaghwy, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0147, Page 342
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- (continued from previous page)and soak a bit of wool in it, and stuff the ear with it.
22. If a person had a sore eye, the cure was to get ten gooseberry thorns point nine to it and throw away the tenth.
23. An eel's skin is the cure for a swollen arm.
24. The cure for the whooping cough is ferret's leavings.
25. The ivy leaf is used for a sore foot.
26. Soap and sugar are used for lumps.
27. The straining thread is a cure for strained bone.
28. A man riding on a white horse could give a cure the whooping cough
29. A capóg is the cure for(continues on next page)
