School: Kyle (An Chill) (roll number 4442)
- Location:
- Kyle, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Cathasaigh
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- (continued from previous page)wool into your ear.
11. A cure for measles is to drink sheeps milk.
12. A cure for whooping cough is to put the child who has it under a donkeys stomack three times.
13. If a girl had the whooping cough and cut a goat's ear and tied it to her dress with a string it is said that it would cure the whooping cough.
14. The juice of nettles is a cure for pains.
15. Pepper and hot milk is a cure for a cold.
16. A cure for the thrush is to put the child under a white horses stomack.
17. A cure for ring-worm is to write your name around it with ink.
18. Long ago on St. Bridget's night the people put out a red silk handkerchief because it would cure pains.
19. Lime is a cure for boils.
20. A cure for a burn is to rub oil to it.
- Collector
- Maureen Long
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockmonalea West, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr M. Mac Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockmonalea West, Co. Cork
