School: Mionloch (C) (roll number 8800)
- Location:
- Menlough, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Bean Uí Oisín Bean Uí Dhubhagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0077, Page 060
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- These cures is well known amongst the Irish people.(1) If a person had the whooping cough and if he met a man on a white horse and asked the man for a cure no matter what cure the man would give him if it was only a cup of cold water the whooping cough would depart from the person.(2) If a person had a wart which he wanted to get rid of and if he went into a house and stole a piece of bacon and put it on the wart the wart would disappear.
- Collector
- Rita Scully
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Naughton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
