School: Drumkeelanmore (roll number 12525)
- Location:
- Drumkeelan More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mary Mc Rann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0208, Page 314
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- Cure for Ringworm
Convenient to this district there lives a woman who has the cure of the ring worm. She gets a silver coloured belt and lies it around the person's waist as tightly as possible. She leaves it on for a few hours. Then she takes it off and sends that person home.
After a very short length of time the ring worm disappears. On Wednesday and Fridays the cure is performed.
Sore eye.
Many different cures are made from herbs such as the cure of the sore eye. Pluck some ivy leaves boil them and squeese the juice out of them then put a few drops into the eye.
Whooping cough
A cure for whooping cough was to boil a hedge hog and make the patient drink the soup.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Woods
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornacranaghy, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Myles Woods
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 40
- Address
- Cornacranaghy, Co. Leitrim
