School: Lugnaskeehan (roll number 6562)
- Location:
- Lugnaskeehan, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Eibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0202, Page 428
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- In former times the people never sent for a doctor. They had their own local cures and believed in them.
To cure toothache the person who complained had to walk round the churn three times without thinking of a fox. The cure for whooping cough was to take the food left behind by a ferret. Another cure for whooping cough was to go out under a donkey's body three times and make the sign of the cross each time. A father and mother who have the same surname have a cure for mumps. The patient is led to a place where the water of three townlands meet. A cure for a sty is to pull ten gooseberry thorns and point nine at the sty and throw away the tenth.
To cure a burn by fire a person has to lick the mankeeper(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jarlath Cuman
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lugnaskeehan, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Lugnaskeehan, Co. Leitrim
