School: Cluain Fraoich
- Location:
- Cloonfree, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Seán Ó Fiachra
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0252, Page 346
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- Toothache: The finger of a dead child is rubbed on the gums.
A headache: A feather is pulled off the tail of a crow.
Warts: The hands are washed in the water collected in a hole in a stone.
Whooping cough: Drink asses milk hot.
Yellow jaundice: Fry a cockroach and then put it into hot milk and drink the milk.
Chillblanes: The feet are washed in the water a stranger washes his feet in.
A burn: A frog is rubbed on the tongue.
Ringworm: The seventh son or daughter has a cure for ringworm.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Banahan
- Gender
- Male
