School: Naomh Colm Cille, Craigtown (roll number 171)
- Location:
- Magheradrumman, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Brian E. Ó Gallchobhair
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- The old fashioned cure for coughs was to cut the tops of whins and boil them and then drink the whin water.
The old fashioned cure for the toothache was to eat garlic.
An old fashioned cure for stopping blood was to get some kind of green herb that grows along the ditches and get someone to chew it and put it on the wound.
Long ago the old people used to gather bogbine and boil it as a cure for cleaning the blood.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maggie Mc Elhinney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glack, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- John Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Crocknageeha, Co. Donegal