School: Clochar na Trócaire, Meathas Truim (roll number 13313)
- Location:
- Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford
- Teacher: An tSiúr Bernard
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0770, Page 483
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- (continued from previous page)custom also for people to visit holy wells and drink water to cure all ailments.
Certain people have cures for jaundice. Go to a bog on any day except Friday and take some bog moss home. Give it to the sick person and order him to boil it three times in milk and drink it. he is then supposed to be better.
A well known cure for whooping cough is to drink milk that a ferret has left after his meal, also to get a red string from your god-mother is a cure. To meet a man on the road riding a piebald horse and ask him for a cure and whatever he tells you is a cure for same.
- Informant
- Mrs Phillips
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corboy, Co. Longford
