School: Drumgownagh
- Location:
- Drumgownagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Dominic Ó Huiginn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 532
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- A cure for the ring worm was made by mixing quick-silver and unsalted butter together. The mixture was put on the effected part. It was put on three times. A prayer was said each time that it put on.Ally-come-pain was a cure for a bad cold. The roots were boiled in a small porringer with water. When the were boiled the juice was drunk. It was a very good cure for a bad cold.A cure for the worms was made by getting a piece of a cod and making the person who had the worms smell it. It was then taken back to the very same where a prayer was said whilst the person had the clay in his or her hand. That was done three times - on Monday and Thursday and Monday and Thursday again.It was said long ago that the cure for hacks was oatmeal.A cure for a sore foot was made by getting a piece of hang-mans-roap and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Bhrádaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Keeldra, Co. Leitrim
