School: Stuacán (roll number 14051)
- Location:
- Muingwore, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Mhiadhaigh
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- To drink ass's milk
A drop of water let out of a live fish's mouth into the sick person's throat and swallowed.
To eat or drink ferrett's "leavings".
If a person who has chincough meets a man riding on a white hourse and asks him for a cure for chincough, any cure he gives him will cure him if he uses it.
- Collector
- Mary Sweeney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Muingwore, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs P. Sweeney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Muingwore, Co. Sligo
- When a husband and wife had the same surnames before they were married as they have after, if a person who has chincough eats of drinks their leavings it will cure him.
- Collector
- Bridget Best
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Tullylin or Ballyfeenaun, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs M. Best
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tullylin or Ballyfeenaun, Co. Sligo
