School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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- (continued from previous page)give it in spoonfuls to the child. If any of them got a pain in their head they would walk backward and they would be all right.
- Long ago the old people had cures for pains and all other complaints.
If a child has the chin cough bring it and put it under the she-ass three times and then put a grain of meal in the child's dress and let the ass it and while the ass is eating put three grains of it into the child's mouth.
The old people tell us that goose-grease is a good cure for pains.
If you rub a gold wedding-ring to the wild-fire it will cure it.
If you put a penny or a piece of copper in a cup of milk over night and give it next morning to the person who has the wild-fire to drink it will cure him.
If a baby boy has the chin-cough his god-mother(continues on next page) - Collector
- Teresa Geraghty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
