School: Liathdruim
- Location:
- Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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- Salt and hot water is good for a sore throat. For a pain in your stomach . Take a cup of boiled milk. For wild fire. The blood of a black cat. For teeth-aches. Boiling water and salt. For sore eyes. Bold tea. For boils. Hot wax or an onion. For scals. Boiled loaf bread in water. For whooping cough. Ask an owner of a white horse and whatever he will say will be a cure. For a burn of a nettle. Rub doch leaves to it. If you had the measles. Boil a grannóg and give the person that has the measles the soup of it and it is said to cure them.