School: Monksland (C.) (roll number 2792)
- Location:
- Monksland, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Nic Oireachtaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0659, Page 231
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- Local CuresThere is a very old cure for whooping cough. A Charity has to got from a man and woman married who have the same name, and it is supposed to cure the whopping cough within a week. There is also another cure for drawing and healing a sore. It is a leaf called the "carpenters leaf" and it can be got along the road-side.A cure for mumps is to roll the person who has the mumps in a pig sty, or to roll them under a donkey.Another cure for the mumps is to tie a cloth around your neck in which a worm called "Gods horse" is. This is supposed to cure the mumps within three days.A cure for a pain in the ear is to get the heart of a small onion and put it in the ear. A cure for a sty on your eye is to get a gooseberry thorn and point it at the sty and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nan Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Cooley, Co. Louth
