School: Cill Fhínghín (roll number 16222)

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   together then. When it is in the shape of a cake it is cut up in "ceathramha". Then it is put down in a heated griddle. There must be a good fire under it so that it is well baked. It has to be baking for a half an hour or less.

   

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2. A Cure for a Cough

   

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   When a person has a cold and a cough it can be cured easily. First to get a saucepan and to fill it with buttermilk and to boil it. The butter milk is to be left boiling for an hour. When it is boiled a little new milk is put with the boiled milk and it should be drank. The time to drink it is when you would be going to bed every night. The boiled milk is not much good in the morning or in any other time of the day.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)
            1. medicine for human sicknesses
               1. cough (~30)
   2. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Michael Costello

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Kilcolgan, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Martin Linnane

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Kilcolgan, Co. Galway