School: Cill Uachtair
- Location:
- Highwood, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Dhubhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0181, Page 235
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- There are many local cures that I have already heard of. The cure of the foul mouth which any child has who never saw his father.
The cure of the ring-worm which the seventh son of any family has. The cure of the whooping cough is the ferrets leavings or if you meet a man with a white horse and ask him for a cure and what ever cure he tells you take it. There is a cure at Lasser well for a pain in the back. There is a rock beside the wall for to go under it three times in the of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost and you will be cured.
The cure of lumps in the neck is to rub the waters of a river where three townlands mearen.
There is a rock in Ballindoon and the water that lodges in it is a cure for the toothache.
The cure of a sprain is a flax(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sínead Ní Liadáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Highwood, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Patrick Lyden
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Highwood, Co. Sligo
