School: Kilcleagh (Mixed) (roll number 14742)
- Location:
- Kilcleagh, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Murphy
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- Toothache
put pepper and ginger into itRingworm
pay three successive visits to a seventh son on Monday, Thursday and Monday.Measles
give a pint of cow's milk to a ferret and whatever the ferret leaves give it to the person who has the measles to drinkBurn
put paraffin on it and hold it to the fireWhooping cough
get a piece of red ribbon from the child's godmother and tie it round the child's neckWarts
steal a piece of bacon and bury it and when the bacon withers the warts will wither.find a black snail, rub it to the warts and then stick the snail on a blackthorn bush; as the snail withers so will the wartsSore throat
roast potatoes, put them in a(continues on next page)- Collector
- John Coughlan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonmore, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- John Coughlan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Clonmore, Co. Westmeath