School: Mostrim (B.) (roll number 2083)
- Location:
- Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Richard Hyland
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- Another cure for a whittle is this. There is a leaf called the Trayfile and it grows about three inches high with a green stem and a small yellow flower much like the flower that grows on the furze. To use this you chop up the flowers and leaves very fine and also a little soap and boil it into a jelly and this will make a good poltice for a whittle.
- There is a cure with a ferret for the whooping cough that is to drink a ferret's leavings. Whatever the ferret left after him put it into a bottle and drink a few drops of it when you would cough.
Another old cure for the whooping cough is to give a donkey oaten meal and while he is eating it put the person under the donkey three times in the name of the Father Son and(continues on next page)- Collector
- John Nolan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisnagrish, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Patrick Nolan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Lisnagrish, Co. Longford