School: Cluain Fhada (roll number 15091)
- Location:
- Cloonfad More, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Thighearnáin
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- (continued from previous page)district supposed to be visited by Saint Brigid called Brideswell and people go for their stations from the fifteenth of August to the eight of September.
- In olden times people always tried local cures for their ailments. The cure for the whooping cough was the food left by a ferret or food that a man or woman of the one name would leave after them. The ring-worm and itch were cured by boiling a certain herb and mixing it with a certain oil. The jaundice was cured also with an herb boiled and mixed in porter. Children were always subject to a certain disease called "thrush" This was cured by applying Borax and glycerine(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Francis Bohan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Hillstreet, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Pat Cummins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Hillstreet, Co. Roscommon