School: Droichead na Ceathramhna
- Location:
- Bridgecartron or Derrycashel, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: S. Pléimeann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0232, Page 321
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- The cure of the burn is made by a woman named Mrs. Price who lives in the townland of Derrynadouglas, about a half mile from Bridge-Cartron N. S. She makes this cure by mixing lard, bee's wax and an herb together. By rubbing this mixture on the affected part the burn is cured.
If a person who has whooping cough and drinks milk which a ferret leaves after him he is cured. It is also cured by getting a husband and wife whose maiden-name was the same as that of her husband to take a drink of milk, and to give the person who has the whooping-cough the rest of the milk out of the same vessel from which the two people have already drunk.
People cure a tooth-ache by putting a piece of a blessed candle into the tooth in which the pain is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Kearns
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrynadooey, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Gowan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Bridgecartron or Derrycashel, Co. Roscommon
