School: Cill Tulaigh (roll number 15166)
- Location:
- Kiltullagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Seasnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0034, Page 0426
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- In olden times the people had some very queer cures.
The cure they had for the whooping cough was. If they saw a man with a white horse passing by they would go out before his, and ask him for a cure. Whatever he would say suppose it was to buy a loaf and give them a cut each, that would be supposed to cure the whooping cough. If a person had a sore throat the cure was to use a woollen stocking round his neck going to bed and it was supposed that the sore throat would be gone next morning.
- Collector
- Catherine Fergus
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockatogher, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Pat Broderick
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Knockatogher, Co. Galway
