School: Castletowngeoghegan (B.) (roll number 2092)
- Location:
- Castletown Geoghegan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Ó Conaire
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- (continued from previous page)to go to that well and rub some of the water on his eyes. In three days his eyes would be cured.The cure for the whooping-cough long ago was this : - If the person suffering from the whooping-cough drinks the milk left after a ferret, he would be cured of the whooping-cough. Another cure for the same cough is to get a goose-quill and tickle the inside of the persons throat with it in order to make him cough up the phlegm.If a person had the chin cough, he should crawl under a donkey's front legs and he would be cured.
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- Collector
- B. Maloney
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Joseph Carey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Conranstown, Co. Westmeath