School: Achadh na Garron (Aughnagarron) (roll number 5603)
- Location:
- Aghnagarron, Co. Longford
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0764, Page 272
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- Cures for Chin-cough
Food which a ferret leaves behind it will cure chin or whooping cough or to meet a man on the road with a white horse and ask him for a biscuit and when you go home give it to the person who has the chin-cough.Cures for warts
To get a black snail and rub it to the wart and then hang him on a thorn and when the snail dies the wart will die. Water which has lodged in a hole in a stone will also cure wartsCures for a sty
To get a gooseberry thorn and then point it three times at the eye and then throw it across your right shoulder also house-leek will cure inflammation in the eyeCures for a fresh cut
Cobweb cures a fresh cut also the leaf of the slanlus cures a cut.Cures for a cold
Garlic cures a cold and colts-foot also cures a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Donohoe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Creevy, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Joe Donohoe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Creevy, Co. Longford
