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School: Monksland (C.) (roll number 2792)

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Monksland, Co. Louth
Teacher:
M. Nic Oireachtaigh
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    Local cures
    The cure for the whooping cough is,
    If you a briar growing across from one side to the other side, Then get the person who has the whooping cough and put them in blankets and roll them under the briar and they will get better.
    The cure for a pain in your-ear is, to put a few drops of olive-oil in a little pice of cotton-woll and place it in your-ear.
    The cure for the measels is for the Child's god-Father or god-Mother to tie a red ribbon round the childs neck.
    I got those cures from My Mother
    Mary Barry
    Monksland
    Carlingford
    Co. Louth
    (Aged 11)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Barry
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    11
    Address
    Monksland, Co. Louth
    Informant
    Barry
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Monksland, Co. Louth