School: Drumkeelanmore (roll number 12525)
- Location:
- Drumkeelan More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mary Mc Rann
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The cure of a strain is get chick weed and wash it clean then roast it. When it is roasted put unsalted butter on it then makes a poultine of it and put it to the swollen foot.
When you cannot get a thorn out of your foot get the leaves of a white thorn bush pound them on the thorn then put a bandage on them and is a few days the thorn will come out.
A child that never saw his father has the cure of the chincough. or whooping cough.
The cure of the burn is lick a man. creeper, lick the burn, and then you have the burn cured.
Lizzie McWeeney
Leitra
16th December 1939
These cures was told by my father, who is about sixty five years.- Collector
- Lizzie Mc Weeney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leitra, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mc Weeney
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 65
- Address
- Leitra, Co. Leitrim