School: Ardaghy, Omeath
- Location:
- Ardaghy, Co. Louth
- Teacher: B. Mac Craith
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- A sore throat:
Tie a stocking round your neck going to bed at night and it will cure it.For warts:
Get a snail and tie it to a bush and as the snail withers, the wart does likewise.A cough:
Take a drink of hot buttermilk going to bed at night and it will cure it.A sore ear:
Put cotton wool in it and it will cure it.For a horse with colic:
Drench her with hot ale and ground ginger.For a horses cold:
Get dock leaves and boil them and give them to her.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Laurence O' Hanlon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Cornamucklagh, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Laurence O' Hanlon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Cornamucklagh, Co. Louth