School: Scoil Dhalláin Forgaill (roll number 16963)
- Location:
- Kilclooney Beg, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: S. Ó Baoighill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1048, Page 287
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- 1. For the whooping cough
Long ago when a person had the whooping cough he would give a vessel of milk to a ferret and let it drink all it could. He would then drink whatever milk was left and it cured him of the whooping cough.
2. For a grass cut
When a person had a grass cut he would tie a woollen thread on the toe on which the cut was, and it was supposed to cure the cut.
3. For a fallen palate
When a person had a fallen palate he would get some other person to raise him up by the hair of the head. This was supposed to raise the palate also.Collected by Mary T. Gallagher
Narin,Portnoo.
From her father, Dan Gallagher
Narin, Portnoo
Aged 47
10/1/'39
- Collector
- Mary T. Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Naran, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Dan Gallagher
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Naran, Co. Donegal
