School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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- (continued from previous page)to the sting at it will cure it.
- Cure for angle-berries in Cattle. No 61.
Get a horse-hair and tie it on the angle-berries and it will take them off. - Collector
- Wilfred Lowry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Graddum, Co. Cavan
- Cure for Red Water in Cattle No. 62
Bottle two pounds of treacle and a half-pound of salts to the animal. Boil a quantity of wild strawberry plant in water, give a bottle full of the liquid obtained to the animal half an hour after the other dose. Keep the animal warm. - Collector
- May Mc Clelland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- To cure ulcerated stomach No.63
Let the person eat no meat nor vegetables but live on sour buttermilk and indian meal stirabout. - Collector
- Cherry Gordon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Graddum, Co. Cavan
- Cure for hiccough No. 64
Take nine sips of water
Eat a pinch of sugar.
Give a person a sudden fright.
Take a deep breath and hold it as long as you can. If not successful, repeat.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Wilfred Lowry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Graddum, Co. Cavan
