School: Drumfries (roll number 1572)
- Location:
- Drumfree, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: P. E. Ó Dubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1110, Page 213
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- warts. When it dries on the rock them they will soon disappear. Anyone who has the whooping cough it is said they will be cured by drinking water from a mountain where a horse drinks.
The leaf of Saint Patrick is a good cure for a pain. Pull a leaf of a tree of St. Patrick, tie it on the pain, sore, etc. and the pain or sore will dissapear soon.
Another cure is to take the skin off an eel and rub it on. It is said that it is very good.
