School: Teampull Dubhglaise (roll number 6968)
- Location:
- Drumbologe, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán C. Ó Dómhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1083, Page 216
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- 1 On St., Bridget's night if you tie a rush round your head you will not have a sore head during the twelve months.
2 A mother and father of the same name can cure the mumps.
3 If you have warts on your hand a cure for them is to rub a snail on the warts. Then hang the snail on a bush When the snail dies and withers the warts will disappear.
4 Another cure is to slice a potato in ten parts. Rub each part on the warts leave them at a cross-road.
5 Sweet milk is a cure for the "heartburn".
6 To give three bits to (?) is a cure for toothache
7 If water stay's in a rock in summer you can cure warts by washing your hands in it the warts will go away
8 There was a well in Crock Na (?) It is a cure for sore eyes if you wash your eyes in it.
9 Willie Kennedy Cashelreagh has a cure for the sheelishan. He lifts the pallet of your throat with pepper(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sarah Craig
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Stackarnagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- William O' Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 26
- Address
- Cabra Glebe, Co. Donegal
