School: Loch an Toirc (roll number 9584)
- Location:
- Loch an Tóraic Theas, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhuirgheasa
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- (continued from previous page)Another cure for the whooping cough is to pull the person who has the whooping cough three times out under a gray donkey. More say a cure for the whooping cough is to give a feriet milk to drink and what he leaves after him to give it to the person who has the whooping cough and is supposed to be able to cure them
- In olden times the old people used to give alot of cures to people who would be sick from such diseases as sore eyes Whooping cough and warts
The way they used to cure the sore eyes was they used to have alot of house-leek growing on their houses and they would squeeze it into a cup and rut it with a cloth into their eyes and it would cure them. And they also used to rub tea-leaves(continues on next page)- Collector
- Martin Power
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Loch an Tóraic Thuaidh, Co. na Gaillimhe