School: Cluainín Mór (roll number 1682)
- Location:
- Cooga, Co. Sligo
- Teachers: Ss. Ó Murchú Seán Ó Murchú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0166, Page 003
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The whooping-cough is a great scourge to come into this district, and it is a very contagious disease. This is the way it is cured. When a person takes the whooping-cough, if another person brings in an ass to the house without the people of the house knowing it, and to give some of the asses milk to drink to the person who has the whooping-cough, and to go under the ass between her front and hind legs and across her back three times.
The old women say when a child has the whooping-cough if the father or mother of that child meets a man riding on a white horse, and to ask a cure of that man for the child who has the whooping-cough. No matter what thing that man will tell them to give to the child, it will cure the child of the whooping-cough.
- Collector
- John Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cooga, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs Feeney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cooga, Co. Sligo
