School: An Clochar, Cúil Mhaoile
- Location:
- Collooney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An tSr. Teresita
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- (continued from previous page)and whatever was left was given to the person. They also took Ass'es milk.
Ring-worm:- A seventh son or daughter has the cure if a worm was placed on their hand when they were born.
Foul-mouth.= One who never saw their father cures the person if they blow their breath on him three times.
Swelling = People used to roast chicken weed and put it to the swelling.
Measles = People went under an ass foal that was never ridden on
Warts = People got a black snail and rubbed it on the wart and then put it on a black-thorn bush and if the worm died the wart died.
Colds = People got linseed oil as a poultice and they got carigeen moss and boiled it and drank it.
Sprains = People went to Collery graveyard near Dromahair and brought a thread with them and left it on the stone and took another one instead and rubbed it on the sprain and tied it until it fell off. - Local CuresAbout two hundred yards from my dwelling in a field named John Higgins in the townland of Ballygawley in the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Taheny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Castledargan, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- John Taheny
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male