School: Sgoil Naoimh Conaill, Na Gleanntaí (roll number 15467)
- Location:
- Glenties, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cathal Mac Duibhir
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- (continued from previous page)were cured by a tobacco spittle, which was spat into the sufferers eyes. The cure for a cold was the juice of boiled whins and docan roots. The cure for mumps was if the person who suffered had a sponsor by his own name, the sponsor led him by the halter of a donkey to a stream. Then the sufferer would take three sips of the water. The cure for headaches was to smoke a pipe regularly.
- Collector
- Séamus Ó Domhnaill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glenties, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mary Cannon
- Gender
- Female