School: Bullán (roll number 13432)
- Location:
- Bullaun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0059, Page 0050
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- Cures In olden times the people had some very queer cures. They had a very funny cure for the whooping cough. If they saw a man with a white horse passing by, they would go out before him and ask him for a cure. Whatever he could say suppose it was a loaf of bread and give them a cut each that was supposed to cure the whooping cough. If a person had a sore throat the cure was to tie a wollen stocking round his neck going to bed and it was supposed that the (whoopin) sore throat would be gone next morning. Collected by Mary Donohoe Ballyara Bullion
From My Grandmother Same Address on the 15th Oct 1937 age 80
- Collector
- Mary Donohoe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bellayarha South, Co. Galway
