School: Scoil na gCeithre Máighistrí, Dún na nGall (roll number 14247)
- Location:
- Copany, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cathal Mag Fhionntaigh

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Chin-cough
A cure for the Chin-cough is to go out and in under a donkey three times.The donkey must be eating oat-meal and whatever he drops on the ground you must pick up and make an oaten cake of it and eat in.Nearls.
Nettle-Tea
Pick some fresh young nettles. Wash them three times in spring-water.Put them into a pot. Cover them with cold water. Let them boil for half-an-hour.Then strain them and make tea of the juice by adding cream and sugar.Give a cup of this nettle teach when the nearls being to come out.This cure brings the nearls out on you. Then they go away the quicker.- Collector
- Adhamhnan Mag Fhionntaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13