School: Réidhleán (Measctha), Áth an Chóiste
- Location:
- Rylane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Buachalla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0343, Page 268
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- The following rhymes are also said while playing Silly Sally Water."Ring a ring a rosy
A bottle full of posies
One for you, one for me,
One for little Roy.
- This is way "thrush in babies" is cured. A gander is kept fasting, and his bill is put into the patients mouth, so that his breath will be inhaled by the sick person.There is also a cure for Whooping Cough, in the food left behind by a ferret commonly known as "Ferrets Leavings" Taking this food cures the Victim.It is said that the seventh son or a posthumous child, that is a child that never saw his father, has power to cure all diseases.
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- James Sexton
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- Male
- Address
- Kilcullen North, Co. Cork
