School: Carrowrile (roll number 10396)

Location:
Carrowreilly, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Pádhraic Ó Coileáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0172, Page 256

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  1. The spraining thread is a twine made with four rows of hemp. If a person sprains his foot by turning on it the spraining thread is put on it. Tom Doyle of Bunghill makes the spraining thread. The string is left on the foot for nine days and then it falls off and the foot is all right.
    Told by:
    Mrs O'Donnell, 40 yrs
    Carrowrile, Laragh, Ballymote, Co Sligo
    her son Tom 14 yrs.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. sprains (~94)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tom O' Donnell
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    14
    Address
    Carrowreilly, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Mrs O' Donnell
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    40
    Address
    Carrowreilly, Co. Sligo
  2. When people have head fever they have an awful pain in their head. When a person thinks they have fever the person with the cure measures the head and if the measure from the chin to the top of the head is not the same as the measure from the forehead to the back
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.