School: Naomh Seosamh (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
- Teacher: S. Ó Deagha
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- (1) Milk or food left by a ferret is a cure for whooping cough.
(2) Boiling a nettle and drinking the juice is a cure for the measles.
(3) There is a well in Leitra and if you put your hand or foot into it it would cure ili if ili were was sore.
(4) If you put a dock- leaf near the fire and then put it round a sore foot it would cure it.
(5) If you sprained your ankle and held it under running water it would cure it.
(6) If a dog bit you, you should put some of the dog's hair into the cut and it would cure it.
(7) If you met a man on a white horse he could give you cure for whooping cough.
(8) If you found a stone with water in it, it would cure a cut.- Collector
- Chris Treacy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Tom Dillon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glennamaddy, Co. Galway