School: Kilmurry

Location:
Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
A. de Búrca
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    paper then put on the persopns chest.
    (3) A cure was to bring in a mare ass on the floor. Then there needed to be a woman named Mary, to take the child first then to pass the child out and in under and over the ass three times. Then give the child three drops of the ass's milk.
    Collected by Brigid Egan (14) from Thomas Egan (67), Ballyleague, Ballycommon, Daingean.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. (5) There is a woman called Mrs Lawler of Lowertown living near Kilbeggan and she can cure the whooping cough. If you had the whooping cough and she put her hand on you it would get better. It is said the reason she can cure it is because she never saw her father. He was dead when she was born.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. whooping-cough (~234)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Alice Daly
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Joseph Scally
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    53
    Address
    Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly