School: Ceann Tuirc (B.) (roll number 14052)
- Location:
- Kanturk, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Caoimh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0353, Page 670
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- (continued from previous page)and if he met a man on the road riding a white horse, and if he asked him what was the cure for whooping cough whatever he would say would cure the person.If a person had a sore leg, or a stiff back, and if he went out through a hole in a tree or if he went under a briar he would be cured. And if a person hand seven sons or daughters one after another, the seventh would cure any disease.
- Old people had cures for nearly all pains and aches.1. If a person had a sore throat the old people would put salt in a stocking, and put it around the person's neck.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Miss Margaret Nagle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kanturk, Co. Cork
