School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)
- Location:
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Thos. Mc Gettrick
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- (continued from previous page)the back is to crawl under a rock or the burial place of a saint.
Barley water is a very good cure for the pain in the back also.
Another good cure for toothache is to get a frog and put its leg into the tooth where the pain is. There was a woman living in Carrigans the name of Mrs McHugh and she got that cure for her teeth. She thought it a very good cure.
A good cure for a bite from a dog is to pull a hair from the dog and put it in the wound. - It is said that anyone that rubs a mankeeper on their tongue they are cured of the burn.
People cured a stie in the eye by(continues on next page)- Collector
- Michael J. Mullen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo