School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Tralee (roll number 16871)
- Location:
- Tralee, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An tSr. Bríd
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0439, Page 117
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- Children often get mouth-disease, and their throats are very sore while they have the disease. Tralee people had a cure for it, and the old people still maintain that it has never failed. When a child had mouth-disease it was brought to another house in thy town where there was a child who was born after the death of its father. The healthy child breathed into the mouth of the child who was ill. That done on three consecutive days and the disease was cured.A cure for Whooping-Cough. When a child had whooping-Cough, it was cured in this(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Máire Eibhlín Uí Mháirtín
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 55
- Address
- Boherbee, Co. Kerry
