School: Inistioge (B.) (roll number 1916)
- Location:
- Inis Tíog, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Máirtín Breathnach
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- (continued from previous page)The brains of a rabbit would cure mushroom poison.A sty on your eye is cured by pointing a gooseberry throrn at it.The seventh son of the seventh son would be a doctor perhaps not a professonal one but he could cure all ills. A child born on Christmas day could see Ghosts and command fairies.
- To cure the whoopiong cough a person should go under a donkey's legs three times. Each time a piece of bread is given to the donkey. Each time the person passes between the donkey's legs let him eat the crumbs that fall from the donkey's mouth and kiss the cross(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Cotterell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cill Choileáin, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- Mr William Cotterell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Cill Choileáin, Co. Chill Chainnigh