School: Doire Liath (roll number 10102)
- Location:
- Derryleagh, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Siobhán Ní Shúilleabháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0467, Page 189
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- In olden times people made use of various cures to cure the diseases of man and beast. The various cures used for children having developed measles were
1. To put the child to bed and to give hot drinks of milk and water.
2. To boil sheep's droppings and to drink the juice through milk.
Cures for Whooping Cough were as follows;
1. To drink mouse's soup.
2. To go beyond the bounds of your own parish.
3. To drink donkey's milk.
4. To put a small fish into the child's mouth to stop the whooping.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Patrick O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Maulagallane, Co. Kerry
