School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)
- Location:
- Baile Shéamais, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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- (continued from previous page)A case of severe sore throat a poultice of chick-weed is applied. An open tongs is laid on the fire and the chick-weed is left on it - to heat. When hot enough it is placed on the throat.
Roasted potatoes placed in a stocking are used in the same way.
For a cold, onions or garlic, boiled on new milk make a splendid cure.
Ferrets or asses leavings are given for chin-cough.
Meet a man with a piebald pony, and ask him what he would recommend you to give to a child, who has the chin-cough - then give whatever he says to the child and(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Gorman
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Hunt
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Baile Shéamais, Co. Liatroma