School: Rathcoffey, Donadea (roll number 6174)
- Location:
- Rathcoffey North, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Bean Uí Laideáin
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- Local CuresSeveral cures for common ailments are preserved in my district.
These cures have been handed down from old people and are applied to relieve distress up to the present day.
I shall give names and addresses of people who people who possess certain healing powers and also addresses of people who sought these remedies and obtained relief.Cure for Whooping CoughA maiden, who marries a man of the same sur-name has the power to cure this malady.
Bread baked by this woman and eaten on three different occasions by the person seeking the remedy will cure whooping cough. My mother holds this cure. Her name is Mrs Samuel Gill. Her address is Baltracy, Donadea, Co Kildare.
I have seen her giving this remedy to various people in the locality and they were always cured.Another cure for the Whooping Cough
The old people say that if a person having(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Gill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baltracey, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Mrs Gill
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 38
- Address
- Baltracey, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Samuel Gill
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 40
- Address
- Baltracey, Co. Kildare
