School: Birr (Mercy Convent)
- Location:
- Birr or Parsonstown, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Sr. Flannan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0821, Page 202
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- (continued from previous page)She uses ashes on it and has some special prayers to say known only to herself.Cures for Whooping Cough. If affected person is passed three times under a donkey's foal, the cough is said to grow gradually better.Other cures for whooping cough are the milk of a donkey or milk which has been left over by a ferret after feeding.Old people used to sow a flower called house leek and it was used as a cure for corns.A nettle sting is cured by rubbing dock leaves on it.
