School: Cill Fhearga (roll number 15128)
- Location:
- Killarga, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0202, Page 271
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- (continued from previous page)by many people in country places. A cure for whooping cough is to drink a ferret's leavings, that is, food which remains after a ferret has finished his meal.
The seventh son of a family is supposed to cure the ringworm by rubbing his hands three times to the sore spot and receiving some prayers. Children born on Saint's days are generally named after the saint.
A remedy for consumption is to fill a pillowcase with pine leaves and sleep on it. A cure for a sty on your eye is to point nine of them to the sty and thrown the tenth gooseberry thorn across your right shoulder. Long ago people used sweathouses as a cure for rhuematism and to reduce fat.
- Collector
- Eileen O' Rourke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gortnacorkoge, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Patrick O' Rourke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Gortnacorkoge, Co. Leitrim
