School: Dring, Granard (roll number 14292)
- Location:
- Dring, Co. Longford
- Teacher: James Drum
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- A cure for a sore throat was fill a stocking full of salt and tie it round the neck.
A cure for an ear-ache is a little bag or pad of hot bran placed to the ear.
A cure for tooth-ache is to take a straw from the Crib and keep it, and rub it to the back of the tooth that is painful.
A cure for a thorn is soap and sugar.
A cure for whooping cough is to put on a horse's winkers and lead the person that has it in and out through the pig-stye three times or under a horse's belly.- Collector
- Annie Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Ballinulty Lower, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Joe Farrelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Dring, Co. Longford