School: Radharc an Locha (roll number 14488)
- Location:
- Lake View, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Shamhráin
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- There are a number of local cures for different diseases. Fifty or sixty years ago people went far and wide to be cured but now those cures are gradually dying out. Burn
If a person who is badly burned mixes sweet oil with lime water and puts it on immediately after getting the burn it will keep it from blistering, and another cure for a burn is to lick a insect called a mancreeper and they will get instant relief. Whooping Cough
The cure for the Whooping cough is to drink ferrets leavings, or to be put out under a black ass with her first foal, or to drink asses(continues on next page)
