School: Barratitoppy (roll number 14664)
- Location:
- Barratitoppy Lower, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 096
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- Local Cures
The cure that the old people had for the mumps was to put a donkey's halter on you and walk you through the pigsty and make you rub your mouth against the door case.
The cure they had for the whooping cough was to eat meat left by a ferret.
To put a donkey's halter on your and walk you across south- running water three times is a cure for the mumps.
Another cure for the whooping cough was to take a mare's milk after it had foaled.
A seventh son or daughter is supposed to have the cure for the evil.
A child that never saw its father has a cure for the thrush.
The cure for a sty in your eye is to get ten thorns of a gooseberry bush and stick each thorn into your sty.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Meehan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumscor, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Patrick Meehan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Drumscor, Co. Monaghan
