School: Cill Choinnigh (roll number 13563)
- Location:
- Kilkenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Giolla Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1053, Page 205
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The cure that the people have for toothache is to go to Tobar na fuilleog a holy well in the district make the Sation there and bring some of the holy water home in your mouth. To boil a cup full of sweet milk and put your ear over it, or put grey wool into your ear is a cure for earache.
A cure for common cold is to boil a cup full of buttermilk and put sugar and pepper on it and drink it hot. Another cure is to cut a turnip n slices and steep it in sugar for a night and drink the juice of it afterwards. To boil nettles and drink their juice is a cure for measles. To drink milk a ferret would leave behind him is a cure for whooping cough. To drink donkey's milk is another cure.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Winnie Boyce
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Edward Boyce
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mulnamin Beg, Co. Donegal
