School: Currach Saileach (roll number 13800)
- Location:
- Curraghsallagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Séamus Mag Fhloinn
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- To stop bleeding :- (1) cobweb (2) feathers (3) briar leafMumps :- (1) Take person with mumps and swing it three times over the back of a black pig (2) go to the pig sty with the person that has the mumps and let it say three times "Mucla Mucla" give me the cure for the Mumps deicneach (3) marsh mallows applied to the neck
- Collector
- James Cafferky
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Cafferky
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Curraghsallagh, Co. Roscommon
- Toothache: -
(1) to smoke tobacco (2) ashes (3) soda
(4) ginger (5) if you see a new moon no matter where you are to kneel down and say a prayer
(6) put on your left shoe and stocking before your right one (7) men to promise not to shave on Sunday (8) put a dead man's finger to it
(9) to bleed the gum.