School: Mín a Ghabhann (Meenagowan) (roll number 16823)
- Location:
- Mín an Ghabhann, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Glacáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1054B, Page 06_024
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“The chin-cough is a disease. ...”
The chin-cough is a disease. It is a hard cough they do have. Here is the cure for it to get a living trout and put it into a basin of water and to drink the water.
There is another disease called the Rose. It is a big swelling that comes on you any place. The cure the old people had was to get Mc Cahill’s blood and when they would get it they would rub it on(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Anna Ní Méallaigh
- Other names
- Anna Ní Méallaigh
- Annie Melley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Raithnigh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Annie Melley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Raithnigh, Co. Donegal