School: Wilkinstown (roll number 1917)
- Location:
- Baile Uilcín, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Máire Ní Failcheallaigh
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- Collector
- Nancy Sheridan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile Uilcín, Co. na Mí
- Informant
- Mrs Katie Sheridan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ladyrath, Co. na Mí
- Informant
- Tomna Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile Uilcín, Co. na Mí
- Cure for 'thrush' in child's mouth- a popular belief among the people of this district is that if a child (preferably male) born after his father's death breathes three times into the mouth of a child affected with above complaint it will most assuredly be cured.