School: Mín Riabhach (roll number 17050)
- Location:
- Meenreagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Anton Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1097, Page 32
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- (continued from previous page)sisters.”
If any man has the shaking ague he can be cured by getting weeds growing in the hay and boiling them and drinking them.
A cure for a cough is to boil whins and drink the water.
If you find a little hole of water in a rock and take some of it, it would cure toothache, burns and many other things.
A boy who never saw his father can cure the ferey that a horse takes in his leg.
The cure for sore eyes is to bathe the eyes with black tea.
If a baby gets a strain when it is very young and gets it rubbed he can rub for a strain afterwards themselves.
When anyone takes the toothache the first time, if he rubs his jaw on the donkey he will never take it again.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick J. Gallen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meenreagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr James Gallen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meenreagh, Co. Donegal
