School: Lios na gCraobh (roll number 5341)
- Location:
- Lisnagreeve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: T. Ó Mórdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0937, Page 149
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- Local CuresMumps-- can be cured by going through a donkey's legs three times in succession or going round a well after sunset (after ) with a donkey's halter round the patient's neck.Whooping cough-- "By charities." Going round to three houses in which the man and wife are of the same name and get some eatable in each house and give it to the patient.Dirty mouth-- Can be cured by a posthumous child.Sty-- A person who had a gooseberry bush and touch the patient's eye with one every night for nine nights.Warts-- By rubbing a snail on the wart and hanging it on a bush to it decays and then the wart will decay.
- Collector
- Liam Moore
- Gender
- Male
