School: Urcher
- Location:
- An tUrchar, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: Martha Allister
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- (continued from previous page)same name as herself had the cure for the whooping cough. If they sent three eatables to the child who had it, and the child ate them, it was supposed to get better in a short time.
To cure thrush, a dirty mouth in the young child, woodbine leaves were boiled in a little water, and the mouth was worked with it, afterwards it was rubbed with a little honey.
- At every house there was a flax kiln. The flax-kiln was a house in which the flax was dried and beetled. There was a bench called a flake from wall(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Moorehead
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 82
- Address
- Tír Ardáin, Co. Mhuineacháin
