School: Cloonagh Boys' National School
- Location:
- Coolrawer, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: P. O Braonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0170, Page 0147
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- Whooping Cough. To drink donkey's milk or if you meet a man riding on a white horse ask him for a cure and what ever he tells you give it to the sick child and it will be cured.
Measles. If a ferrit was drinking milk and what he would leave to give it to the sick child the measles would go. Or if you boiled nettles and gave the juice to the sick child it would make him well.
Toothache. To put a little bit of tobacco down in the hole in your tooth.
Wildfire. To write your name across the place which it is.
Warts. Wash the wart with the water of a limestone and it will be cured.
Bleeding nose. Hold anything cold to the back of the head and the blood will stop.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Cahill
- Gender
- Male
