School: Caológa (2) (roll number 16309)
- Location:
- Keeloges, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Laoghaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1073, Page 99
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- In olden times the people had many old cures such as going under a female donkey three times for the whooping cough. And fastening a rope round your neck and getting some other body to tie you to a stream of water for the measles. And boiling nettles and drinking this brew for measles. And boiling dandelions and burrs and bog bean together and drinking it every morning fasting for three months for boils. And mixing soot and salt and blue-clay together for ringworm.
- Collector
- Mary Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Roshin, Co. Donegal
