School: Errigal Trough (roll number 15565)
- Location:
- Scairbh na gCaorach, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: Saragh Gillanders
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0958, Page 363
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- (continued from previous page)If you put a frog in a box and hold it to your mouth when you cough, for three times, it will cure whooping cough.
People who are born on Easter Sunday are supposed to be very lucky and to have money. A Miss Moffett of Drumbers was born on Easter Sunday, and she is now the mistress of Dungannon workhouse and has a salary of 300 pounds per year.
Chicken weed will cure swollen feet.
Boiled flax-seed is a good cure for the cold.
Soda and water cures a heartburn.
Old people believed that a cup of very strong tea would cure a headache.
A cure for a sore throat or a cough is to put roasted salt to it or gargle with salt.
Patrick McKenna of Derrellan can cure sprains. He was the seventh son.
- Collector
- Marion Mills
- Gender
- Female
