School: Walterstown (roll number 10356)
- Location:
- Walterstown, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Proinseas, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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- XML “Sore Throat”
- XML “Noggins”
- XML “Forge”
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- (continued from previous page)to put the person under and over a mare-ass three times while she is eating either bread or oaten meal and get the person to eat the bits that she lets fall. Another cure for the whooping-cough is to get a bit of wheaten bread made by a woman that does not change her name when she gets married.
- Sore ThroatThe cure of a sore throat is to put a piece of fat bacon on a piece of flannel and shake plenty of pepper on it and tie it around the neck. Another cure for sore throat is to roast some salt and ltie it in a stocking and put it round your neck.Written by
Mairin Harford
Danestown
BalrathGiven by
P. Harford
Same address
Herd - NogginsThere were noggins used for drinking milk out of an eating stir-a-bout out of. There were also wooden plates called "trenchers". There were also milking-pails with one handle on one side and these were carried about, on top of the head. A roller was placed on the head under, and was made of cotton.
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- Collector
- Lizzie Kennedy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cluain Ard Rathain, Co. na Mí
- Informant
- Patrick Moore
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- Over 90
- Address
- Baile na nGiollach, Co. na Mí