School: Cloonacool (roll number 4802)
- Location:
- Cloonacool, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Blioscáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0171, Page 046
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- (continued from previous page)strength the glass was removed the spool was supposed to have been lifted back to the place and the person cured.
- There once lived a () woman in the town-land of Mullawn who had the cure of a dust in ones eye. If a person went to her she would put her tongue into his (their) eye and lick out the dust. Measles: Long ago there used to be many cures. One of the many cures was to go out under a foal or to drink ferett's (lo) leavings or if you met a man riding on a white horse and to ask him for a cure. Another is to drink asse's milk.
- Measle: Long ago they used to say that if you look for an herb which is called Ruideog and boil it in water and eat it that it is a cure for measles. If you go in and out under a foal for three times, it was another cure. If a person that has the chin-cough goes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa O' Hara
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreens, Co. Sligo
