School: St Oran's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Bun Cranncha, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Seán Mac Éibhir
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- (continued from previous page)suck the black blood out of the eye.A person with the mumps would be taken to a stream. He would be carring the harness on him. The stream would have to be one running south.Warm salt was used to cure a pain the back. For a lump an empty bottle was warmed. In olden times a person who would have diptheria went into a whole in a tree five times.Mrs. Bridget McLaughlin, Drumfad, Buncrana, Co Donegal (1/2/1938)Saltpetre was also used for pain in the inside. A piece of saltpetre about the size of a pea would be mixed in a bowl of buttermilk and then drunk.A ware was cured by rubbing salt on it every night. Sometimes when a person would have the toothache in a tooth at the side of the mouth he would tie a bit of string round the thumb on that side. The string was tied between the two joints.
- There was a man in Sleadrin and he never wore shoes and in winter he would put on stockings to keep his feet warm.
There was a woman in Shandrin(continues on next page)- Informant
- John Mc Laughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Sladran, Co. Dhún na nGall