School: Druim Mór (roll number 16278)
- Location:
- Dromore, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Catháin
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- There is a graveyard near Dromahair that is supposed to be the oldest in Sligo. There are seven rocks that can move in the graveyard. If a person sprains his hand or foot, all he has to do is to take a thread off a rock and put on another thread in its place. The thread is put on the sprained limb, and when it disappears the limb is all right.Chin-cough
Anyone suffering from chin-cough was given donkey's milk.
(2) He was also given 'ferret's leavings'
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Headaches.
F or head-aches the old people tied a cloth round their heads and took some sweet, strong tea and went to bedTootache.
If people were suffering from toot-ache they got a frog and rubbed him on the sore tooth.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mick Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Christy Taylor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Dromore West, Co. Sligo