School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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(3) A cure was to bring in a mare ass on the floor. Then there needed to be a woman named Mary, to take the child first then to pass the child out and in under and over the ass three times. Then give the child three drops of the ass's milk.Collected by Brigid Egan (14) from Thomas Egan (67), Ballyleague, Ballycommon, Daingean. - (4) A cure for whooping cough is to drink the juice of a lemon and glycerine and take castor oil.
- (5) There is a woman called Mrs Lawler of Lowertown living near Kilbeggan and she can cure the whooping cough. If you had the whooping cough and she put her hand on you it would get better. It is said the reason she can cure it is because she never saw her father. He was dead when she was born.
- Collector
- Alice Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Joseph Scally
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly
- (6) Another cure for the whooping cough is to get three pieces of bread and give them to the ass and whatever falls from the ass's mouth you are to give it to the child.
- (7) Another cure for the whooping(continues on next page)