School: Ahane (C.) Lisnagry (roll number 563)

Location:
Ahane, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
L. T. Walsh
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  1. 1) If a man with a grey horse was passing the house where the child was ill, the Father of the child should go out to the man and say O Man of the Grey horse give me a cure for the Whooping Cough. And whatever he said no matter how ridaculous it would be it was a cure for the cough.
    2) To give a Ferret milk to drink and whatever he would leave to give it to the person who had the cough.
    3) To take an ass into the house and a person stand at each side of the Ass and put the child out three times under the Ass handing it from one person to the other.
    4) Is to inhail hot tar
    5) If there was a well near your house
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. whooping-cough (~234)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lizzie Hourigan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Annagh, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Pat Rainsford
    Relation
    Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cappanahanagh, Co. Limerick