School: Borrisoleigh (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 206
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- We are told that seventy or eighty years ago, and perhaps later, when an epidemic of the chin cough, as it was called, occurred in this neighbourhood, it was attempted to effect a cure in the following manner.
The father or mother of the affected child waited by the roadside for the chance passing of a rider on a grey horse. Should he happen along, the parent stopped him and asked "Man on the grey horse have you any cure for the chin-cough?". Should he pass without answering or give a gruff one, he was understood to refuse his aid; but should he reply "Put your trust in God, and all will be well", a quick passing of the disease was expected.(Common in this neighbourhood)Thomas Gleeson
Knockinure
Borrisoleigh
October 28 1938
- Collector
- Thomas Gleeson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockinure, Co. Tipperary
