School: Shannow
- Location:
- Shannow Wood, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: B. Ó Ciaráin
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- (continued from previous page)cure. Anything he says to give will act as a cure.
Another cure can be got for a bad pain in the back is to ask a man who is one of (the) seven sons in his family to give you a remedy. He can do so.
An old cure for a rash is to drink sulphur dissolved in butter-milk.
Another cure is to drink while fasting lime-water diluted in sweet milk and a third to cook nettles as you would cabbage and use as a vegetable
- Collector
- Pat Mc Entee
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killoughter, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Dan Mc Entee
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Killoughter, Co. Cavan
