School: Ballinamore (B.) (roll number 2820)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Heslin
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- Cures
Told by James Gannon,
Drumlay,
Ballinamore,
Co. Leitrim.
Cure for a pig with cramps. Get a grass-mouse, bore a hold in an ash tree and put the grass-mouse into the hole. If you go searching for the grass-mouse the cure will not work. Put a cork in the hole when the grass-mouse is inside.
After a certain time the tree will change its colour. When the colour of the tree is changed completely a piece of it will make what is called a cramp-rod.
This is how the pig is cured. You go into the sty and beat the pig around the sty with the cramp-rod. At first he will not be able to walk but in the end he (no) will be able to walk.
When the pig is beaten with the cramp-rod it should not be brought under the roof of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Willie O Hara
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilrush, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- James Gannon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Drumlea, Co. Leitrim
