School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)
- Location:
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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- Put the child with the chin-cough out under an ass foal 3 times. Then the mother of the child must feed the mother of the donkey with oatmeal out of her apron. Whatever meal is left over, 3 cakes are made out of it for the child to eat. Then they milked the donkey again.
The yellow skin inside a hen's gizzard - boiled - makes a drink - which is a sure cure for a headache.
A turnip leaf put to a toothache will cure it.
Make a promise to abstain from any thing you are fond of, and you will get better, if you are sick.- Collector
- Mary Teresa Gilbane
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Gilbane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Minkill, Co. Leitrim