School: Ballinlig (roll number 2994)
- Location:
- Ballinlig, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: J. Seery
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0168, Page 415
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- The cure for the whooping cough is to go in and out under a young ass foal twice and then the cough would be gone. The cure for the hey cough is one to tell you a lie and make you believe it The cure for the toothache is to rub a dead man's hand to your mouth. There is a holy well in Dromard and it was founded by St Patrick in the year 432. Once an old man came to it with two crutches and he got cured and he was able to go home without them. There is a big rock in this place also and if you had a pain in your back and rub your back against it the pain would go away. The cure for thollack in your hands is to rub the skin of an eel to it or to put a silk cloth round the hand
