School: Shrule (roll number 7795/7796)
- Location:
- Shrule, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0038C, Page 04_026
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- If you had a sty in your eye and to go out in the garden three mornings after one another and tp point nine thorns of a gooseberry bush at it it' would go.
If you had a wart on your finger and to rub a black snail of it and to the hang him on a bush while he would be getting rotten the ward would go.
A great cure for chincough was to drink ferrets leaving. Another cure for chincough was if you met a man riding on a white horse whatever he would tell(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Colm Dooley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gorteens, Co. Mayo
