School: Cathair Loisgreáin (C)
- Location:
- Caherlustraun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire Nic Aodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0022, Page 0512
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- (continued from previous page)16. If a person is going on a journey and sees water on a stone, if he has a wart, to dip it in it, and to say a prayer, and it will go.
17. If a person has a sore throat, and to tie her won stocking around her neck it will go.
- 1. For worms in a child, get a pound of lump sugar, and put a few drops of turpentine in one, each morning for nine mornings.
2. For a hard cough, boil buttermilk and oatmeal and add a good grain of sugar and a bit of butter. If taken one week, every day in succession, there is not better.
3. For pains in the stomach, a little drop of hot milk, and three drops of turpentine.
4. Old sore on scab- rub on first spit in the morning fasting(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Conneely
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Derrymore, Co. Galway
