School: Carrowreagh (roll number 15220)
- Location:
- Carrowreagh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Elizabeth Benson
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0185, Page 0002
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- (continued from previous page)If you are going along the road and that you meet a man with a white horse and tell him you want a cure for the whooping cough if he only tells you to give the sick child even a drink of water it will act as a cure.
Ring Worm.
The sevinth son of a family has the cure of this disease. The person with the Ring Worm goes to the house where the seventh son is on Tuesdays and Thursdays and he rubs his hands on the track and it cures it.
Mr Peter Burke of Spurtown has this cure. If he even takes a worm in his hand it will die.
Sty on the Eye
The cure for a sty on the eye is to pull nine thorns off a gooseberry bush and point eight of them at the eye and throw the ninth one over your right shoulder.
Cure for Warts.
The cure for warts is if a person with them came on a stone with(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Brigid Kerins
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Cloonahinshin, Co. Sligo
