School: Cúige na Mainseár
- Location:
- Quignamanger, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Antoine Mac Amhaghladha
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- Acure for a cough long ago was to slice a swaid turnip and to put sugar on itLong ago the leavings of a ferret was a cure for the whooping cough.
Medicine
Long ago there was a medicine the people used to use and this is the way they made it. They used to get three bigs roots of crádhán. They are about the shape of a carret. They have to be scraped and all the dirt has to be taken out of them. Then you have to get a few lumps of sugar stick and mix it with the cridhan and boil it for about six ours and also three - pence(continues on next page)- Collector
- Irene Keane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballina, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Keane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballina, Co. Mayo