School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)
- Location:
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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- (continued from previous page)A seventh son has the cure for ringworm.
Salt is a cure for mumps.
Heat the salt. Apply in old stocking. The heat cures mumps.
Chickweed or chicken-weed is a cure for sore throat.
Heat the chicken-weed and apply.
A cure for a burn, lick a man-keepers belly, any burn is cured by a lick of that tongue.Cure for Head fever.
bean mhín
fear borb
Chuir Mac Dé na luighe sa colg
colg = shoares or tow of flax
I had toothache; I put tow up to my face. I stayed with my head down to the fire. I said above rhyme a few times.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Gorman
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Hunt
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim