School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Raghallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)wash the child in the water there. The child would be better soon after.
- The Whooping Cough in children was supposed to be cured by the god-parent buying a red ribbon, and making a present of it to the child, to be worn round the child's neck.
- Long ago, when people used to take the mumps in their throats, the cure in those days was:- their mother would make them get up at three o'clock in the morning and put a cloth over their eyes and walk them round the pig sty saying these words:-
A mhuclach! A mhuclach! sin chugat do leicneachA leicneach! A leicneach! sin chugat do mhuclach - Collector
- Myles Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Miss Bruton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
