School: Drong (roll number 15699)

Location:
Drung, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Seán P. Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1117, Page 237

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    A cure for swelling is potatoes mashed finely and put to the person's foot or hand or where the jag is. A cure for a sore throat or head is black tea, or for a sore hand a piece of cloth tied around it. A cure for a cold is lemon stewed with sugar. It is said that if you go on the bare feet on Good Friday you will never take the cold that year. Some people get cured of some diseases at some holy well such as Doon Well.
    There is a priest in Carndonagh who can cure some people and the people of the Locality go to him his name is Father Keenan
    I got this essay from Mrs. C. Duffy Drung.
    Annie McLaughlin,
    Drung,
    Quigley's Point
    Via Lifford
    Co. Donegal.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Mc Lauughlin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Quigley's Point, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mrs. C. Duffy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drung, Co. Donegal