School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Cill Mhuire, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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- (continued from previous page)cough is to ask the first man you meet with a white horse has he any cure for the whooping cough. And whatever he tells you, you are to do it.
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- Collector
- Sheila Boland
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Coill an Ó, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Informant
- Julia Boland
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Coill an Ó, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- 4. The people cured a sore throat with roasted salt tied up in a silk handkerchief and tied around your neck.
5. Wet wheaten meal in cold water and put it in a silk handkerchief and tie it round your neck. Then put a piece of dry cloth around the handkerchief. - 6. Marshmallows and salt pounded up into pulp then placed around the neck in a cotton stocking.
7. Another cure is to get a boiled turnip and fry it on an old pan and sweet oil poured in over it then put around the neck for(continues on next page)