School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)
- Location:
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 436
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- A cure for a cold: Boil buttermilk and garlic. Drink it.
There is a holy well, near Kiltoghert graveyard. The water from that well, a piece of clay, from Father John Mc Keon's grave will cure a toothache.
If you catch some of the first rain that falls in May, it will cure a hiccough.
To stop bleeding, get 3 leaves of 3 different trees and apply it, making the sign of the cross. The bleeding will stop.
Boil flax-seed, in water. Strain it. Put down again, with sugar o'candy, lemon juice and reboil.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Kane
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Peter Moran
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kildorragh, Co. Leitrim
