School: Tarmon (roll number 13997)
- Location:
- Tarmon, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: P. Layden
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0205, Page 237
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- Long ago when doctors were scarce the people had cures of their own. The cures were as follows
1) There is a leaf called cutfinger and if you peel the skin off it and put it om a cut on your finger it would cure it. If you 2) had a mole in your eye and leave your eye on an egg stand and to say certain prayers it would fall out. If you had the chin cough
3) and get a potatoe lost on the road and bring it home and boil it and eat it you would be cured. If a person had a sore
4) throat and drink lamp-oil it would cure it.
- Informant
- James Layden
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Falty, Co. Leitrim
