School: Drumshanbo (roll number 16846)
- Location:
- Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Cathal Ó Buadhacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0220, Page 313
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- (continued from previous page)him. In its stead he leaves a pin, a piece of cloth, a button or a penny. He rubs the water to the warts on Mondays and Thursdays. This water is also used for warts on cattle.
A swelling. Get the Butcher's broom and flowering broom and boil them together. Rub the swelling with the juice. Another cure for chin cough is to ask the first person you meet riding a piebald horse for a cure, and whatever cure he gives will cure the child. One man tried to fool a woman by telling her to boil tip nails and give the child the soup. The woman did so and the child got better.
- Collector
- Mary Hughes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Breanrisk, Co. Longford
