School: Carraig Áluinn (roll number 16.474)
- Location:
- Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mag Uidhir
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- (continued from previous page)LOCAL CURES. / (NAMES OF PERSONS - contd. from folio 21.)WORMS: / Tom Richards, Killahurk Carrigallen
/ Jas. F. McManus Church Sr. Carrigallen
SWINE FEVER: / Tom Richards, Killahurk Carrigallen
STOMACH TROUBLE: / Mrs Mc Guinness Main St Carrigallen
FALLING PALATE: / Mrs Mc Hugh Augheran Carrigallen
WHITLWO: / "Dinny Barney" Aughnasheelin, Ballinamore.
(cannot find out correct name).
SPRAIN: / John Kiernan Carrigallen (The Bard")
WHITLOW: / James Cassidy, Corglass, Carrigallen.
WHOOPING COUGH CURE: / Leavings of milk drunk by a ferret - One for sorrow, two for joy
Three for a girl and four for a boy.
Five for silver, six for gold
Seven for a story, never to be told.
Eight for a marriage, nine for a wake
And ten for a piece of the wedding cake.