School: Ballybay (B.) (roll number 1860)
- Location:
- Cornaseer, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Nualláin
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- The cure for consumption is to drink asses milk. The cure for a soar throat is, to fill a stocking with hot salt and tie it round your neck. The cure for a wart is to rub a black snail on it, and to leave the snail on a thorny bush. The cure for a sting of a wasp is to rub blue on it. The cure for ringworm is to get a seventh son to leave his hand on it. The cure for a sty is to point a gooseberry to it 9 times and then bless yourself and then it will get better.
