School: Derreenargan
- Location:
- Derreenargan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Fionnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0232, Page 211
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- The best cure for a toothache is to carry in your pocket the end of any one of the first six candles that are burned over a corpse.
A cure I often heard mentioned locally for the whooping-cough is to drink a ferret's leavings.
If a person is suffering from a hiccough a good cure for it is to give that person a fright.
If a person has sore eyes the best cure for them is to wash them in either cold black tea, or in buttermilk.
There is a holy well situated in this district. At(continues on next page)
