School: Drom an Eargail, Áth Treasna (roll number 10361)
- Location:
- Dromanarrigle, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Caoimh
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- (continued from previous page)cream at night to them.
A cure for (sore li) chin-cough was to watch the first white horse you would see going the road and ask what would cure the chin-cough and what ever cure he would give you not matter what it is, it is supposed to cure the chin-cough.
A cure for a pain in the back is to crawl between a window or between an animals legs.
A cure for a cut was to take off a cobweb and put it around it.
A cure for a burn it to put up bread soda and water to it. - There are a good many wells in this locality. The well nearest to this place is Trinity Well which is about a mile from Newmarket. The people pay rounds to this well Trinity Sunday every year. Some people let rags on the bushes which are near the wells to let their troubles after them. It is said that a man named Malacy McAuliffe drank(continues on next page)
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- Mary O' Keeffe
- Gender
- Female