School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 03_042
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The chin cough. To drink asses milk or if you met a man on a white horse and ask a cure what ever he would say would do.
For the pluck. To put three blasts of tobacco over in his neck.
For a sore throat. To tie your left stocking round your neck in the night.
A calf with pneumonia. To boil hay and put turpentine through it and tie a bag around the head of the pot and put his head in to it for half an hour.
A cow with munain. A plant known as the "clob-deary" would cure it.
For pimples. To mix treacle and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chorra
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Thomas Corry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
