School: Domhnach Mór, Luimneach (roll number 16118)
- Location:
- Donaghmore, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Aingeal Nic Aodha Bhuidhe
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- Sores. Sores were cured by a weed called (bleoinín mhaith). This weed had to be heated and then stuck to the sores. They were then supposed to heal.
Patrick O'Connell 16.11.37- Collector
- Patrick O' Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Whooping Cough.
1. Get garlic and boil it, then mix the liquid in which it was boiled with whiskey and give it to the child to drink.Peggy Halpin 16-11-19372. Another cure for whooping cough was to allow the child walk under a white horse, then ask the owner of the horse a cure for whooping cough and whatever he will say it is supposed to cure the child.Peggy Halpin 16-11-1937