School: Mín Charraigeach (roll number 7188)
- Location:
- Meencargagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Caitlín Nic Ghiolla Uain
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- (continued from previous page)every hour or so and another hot poultice is put on.No. 5—When people get the mumps they are led over a river three times, taking a drink each time out of the hand of the man who is leading them. Not very long afterwards the mumps disappear.
No. 6—Boils are poultice with soap and sugar. If this poultice is not applied very hot it is not of much use.
No. 7—Loaf-bread and milk are usually boiled to make a poultice for cuts. The old poultice is taken off and a fresh one put on after a day or so. This treatment is continued until the cut is quite healed.- Collector
- Ethna Cassidy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Croaghonagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Kitty Mac Grory
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 91
- Address
- Meencrumlin, Co. Donegal