School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha hAmhnais (roll number 11438)
- Location:
- Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: -
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- 1 For Chin cough
Ask a cure from a man with a white horse and do as he tells you.
2 For Chin cough
Give the child with the cough ass's milk three times daily out of a goat's horn, putting the child three times under and over the ass before and after drinking the milk.
3 A Cure for bad eyes
A wash made of white copperas, also a wash made with the plant eyebright.
An old Spring medicine
1 lb treacle, 1/2 lb sulphur, l oz cream of tartar, l oz of ginger thoroughly mixed; l spoonful fasting daily.
A Cure for Colic pain
Garlic; also to swing with the hands from a height; also to drink peppermint.
To Cure Jaundice
Eat mashed carrots and(continues on next page)- Informant
- Dr Michael Waldron
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo