School: Cill Muire, Sixmilebridge
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chonmara
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0596, Page 226
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times under a donkeys body..Any man driving a white horse passed the house where there was a patient with whooping cough was asked for a cure for same Anything he recommended was believed to cure the cough.Toothache:- Men vow not to shave on Sunday ,and women to abstain from meat on that day and say,they never afterwards suffered from toothache.
Thrush:- A posthumous child or person born feet foremost to breathe three times fasting (three consecutive mornings unto the mouth of the affected child -known to be a very effective cure.Mrs Neville, Kilmurry,died 1937 aged about eighty years practised this cure Successfully .her son Michael has the same cure.
Corns and Bunions:- (1) House leek which(continues on next page)
