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School: Killesk

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Coill Eisce, Co. Loch Garman
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Margt. Sutton
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0873, Page 047

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    A cure for the chin-cough is if you happened to find a hairy-molly and put her in a cloth and tie it around the persons neck with the ointment and accordingly as the insect decays away the chin-cough will go away too.
    If you get bread from the children of whose parents are of the same name it is supposed to cure the chin-cough too.
    If you boil black-button leafs, and drink the water it is a cure for boils. The roots of comfrey boiled or scraped and made into a paste is a cure for a sprain.
    Spunk leafs are good for a severe cut. If you boil water and put a corner of a towel into it and put it as hot as you could bear it on the back of your neck it will cure a head-ache.
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    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
        1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nano Hart
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mrs Hart
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tigh an Chnoic, Co. Loch Garman