School: Eslin (roll number 10026)
- Location:
- Eslinbridge, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pilib Mac Aonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 404
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- Long ago the old people made remedies for their ailments from the herbs of the land. For the toothache a little prayer is said for a cure.
Saint Peter lay shaking on a marble stone
Our Lord said to Peter, Oh! what aileth thou Peter
Or maketh you shooke
Our Lord I am troubled with the tooth ache
Who so ever says this prayer in honour of me
And for my sake
Shall never be troubled with the toothache.
The cure of the headache is water mixed with baking soda.
The chincough is cured by putting the child under the young ass foal and made drink the milk.
There is a prayer said to Our Lord for curing a broken hip, leg or arm.
Jesus rode over the hill on his foal
Jesus strained his foal
He put sinew to sinew and bone to bone
And Jesus rode home on his foal.
A snail put on a bush with a thorn in its stomach cures a burn and as long as the snail is withering the burn is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Marion Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumlara, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Michael Gilrain
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Tawnagh More, Co. Leitrim
