School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)
- Location:
- An Drom, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teachers: Pilib Ó Ó Muireadhaigh Pádraig Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 277
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- (continued from previous page)cure it. Another cure for chin-cough was if you saw a man riding a grey horse if you asked him what was a cure for chin-cough whatever he would say was supposed to cure it.
If your nose was bleeding long ago your two middle fingers were tied together tightly.
- Long ago people had cures for almost every disease.
For a sore throat they would put dried salt between two cloths.
If they had a headache they would bathe it with vinegar, or drink strong tea.
For a hiccough they would take three cups of cold water. After each cup of water they would bless themselves.
When they had small-pox they would make a cover for their hands. This cover was to prevent them from itching it and to keep it from spreading.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Fogarty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Drom, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Kathleen Lanigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Drom, Co. Thiobraid Árann
