School: Cloran (roll number 5282)
- Location:
- Cloran and Corcullentry, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Síle Flynn
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- Boil one pint of milk with a wild carrot and drink three times a day.
- Collector
- Caitlín Ní Coinín
- Gender
- Female
- It is said that if a person who has the mumps goes into a pig sty three times and repeats the words Mucna, Mucna, sin e go leicne, he will be cured of them.
- It is said if two people of the same name get married and that if they gather the crumbs that fall from the table at their breakfast, and give them to a person that has the chin cough that person will be cured.A person suffering from the chin cough if he gets his or her godmother to tie a red string around his neck he will be cured.