School: Lanesboro (roll number 13320)
- Location:
- Lanesborough, Co. Longford
- Teacher: E. Ó Reachtagáin
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- (continued from previous page)leave it for a night and then drink the syrup. Honey is also for a cold.
- In the olden times people did not go to doctors they had cures of their own. If you got a cut on your hand and a dog to lick it he would cure it.
If a horse bite you would have to shoot the horse before the would would get better.
To rub a snail on a wart it would also cure it.
People used to drink hot butter milk when they would have a cold.
They used to drink goats milk and garlic when they would have a cold.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Phyllis Mc Crann
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lanesborough, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Miss O' Keefe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Lanesborough, Co. Longford