School: Rathcarran (roll number 4370)
- Location:
- Ráth Chairn, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Chonnachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0697, Page 410
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- (continued from previous page)for gathering sticks on a Sunday.
- The cure for a toothache is to lick a frog three times and say that whenever you meet a frog you will not harm him. The cure for thrush is: if a child that never saw its father breathes into the child's mouth three times it will be cured. The cure of the whooping - cough is to eat the food a ferret leaves. At St. John's well near Dunshaughlin you get the cure of pains. At(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Betty Cusack
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Cusack
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 45
- Address
- Baile Mhistéil, Co. Meath
