School: Drumkeelanmore (roll number 12525)
- Location:
- Drumkeelan More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mary Mc Rann
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- (continued from previous page)Head fever.
A woman living around Battle bridge makes the cure of the head fever on Mondays and Thursdays. She measures your head round about and around your face. If the two measurements are not the same it is suppose that your head is open and that causes head fever.
She puts oatmeal into a cup and says some prayers while the meal is sinking your head is closing in and you will be alright in an hour or two.
Whooping cough.
If you meet a man with a white horse tell him about the whooping coughing and whatever he tells you do, do it and it is supposed to cure the person.
Mumps
Put the child out under an as(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary B Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Lee
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- Over 70
