School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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- (continued from previous page)cough is to ask the first man you meet with a white horse has he any cure for the whooping cough. And whatever he tells you, you are to do it.
- 1. To cure a sore throat put your left stocking if it is a silk one, around your neck after taking it off when going to bed.
2. Another way is gargle your throat with hot water and salt.
3. Honey will cure it when taken before going to bed. - Collector
- Sheila Boland
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Wood of O, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Julia Boland
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Wood of O, Co. Offaly
- 4. The people cured a sore throat with roasted salt tied up in a silk handkerchief and tied around your neck.
5. Wet wheaten meal in cold water and put it in a silk handkerchief and tie it round your neck. Then put a piece of dry cloth around the handkerchief. - 6. Marshmallows and salt pounded up into pulp then placed around the neck in a cotton stocking.
7. Another cure is to get a boiled turnip and fry it on an old pan and sweet oil poured in over it then put around the neck for(continues on next page)
