School: Clonbullogue
- Location:
- Clonbulloge, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. Fitzgerald
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Consumption:- A cure for consumption was to put an egg in an ant's nest. When the ants would have it sucked the consumption would be cured.
- Whooping Cough:- If two people of the same name were married a piece of bread which the woman would make would cure the whooping cough.
Another cure was to crawl under an ass three times while the ass was eating oatmeal.
A visit to Kearney's Well.
A visit to St Brochan's Well in Clonsast.
eat food left behind by a ferret.
Boil plantation leaves and drink the water.
