School: Alt Achadh Doire (roll number 15474)
- Location:
- Altaghaderry, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig L. Mac Diarmada
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- In olden times people said that if you had warts to get a potatoe and rub it on the warts. When it is rubbed throw the potatoe after a hearse and the warts will be cured.
They say that the cure for the mumps os to put the winkers of a horse on the person who has them. Then lead the person to a drinking hole where animals drink out of and let the person take a drink of water.
A cure for the whooping-cough is to give a ferret milk and whatever it leaves give it to the child who has the whooping-cough. The seventh son or daughter have a cure.- Collector
- Nellie Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Altaghaderry, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- James Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Altaghaderry, Co. Donegal