School: Mount Talbot (roll number 14056)
- Location:
- Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Ó Héimhthigh
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- (continued from previous page)legs and crawling through openings were very common. A man in our village had some disease, and he crawled under an asses' legs and when he came out he was cured.
A cure for the whooping cough was to drink ass'es**. I know some children who had whooping cough very badly and when they drank ass'es milk they got better.
The seventh son or seventh daughter are supposed to have a cure for certain diseases such as ringworm.- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Fhíneachtaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mr Finnerty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Finnerty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon