School: Rathkenny (roll number 15483)
- Location:
- Ráth Cheannaigh, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Cárthaigh
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- (2). To boil the blessed-thistle (herb) in milk and drink the syrup so made.
- (1) The sponsor of the child is to get a red ribbon and to tie it round the child's neck.
- (2) To give the child suffering from this complaint the milk left behind by a ferret when being fed. Some say that even if the ferret only dips his nose in the milk, it will cure this complaint.
- Get any person named McElroy to blow hos or her breath on the patient on three different days after sunset
- Collector
- Greta Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Female