School: Mainistir Phádraig Naofa (roll number 1016)
- Location:
- Market Street, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An Br Anselm
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0084, Page 159
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- Mrs Haynes,
Middle Street,
GalwayOld Cures(1) Long ago if a woman's child had the "chin cough" the mother would ask the first man with a white horse, that she met for a cure for it.
(2) If a child had "creasgald" on its tongue the mother would look for a boy who never saw his or her father, to breathe on its tongue. If it was a boy the mother would look for a girl, and if it was a girl, the mother would look for a boy.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Martin Haynes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Middle Street, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Peter Cassidy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Quay Street, Co. Galway
