School: Gort an tSiúrdáin (roll number 14534)
- Location:
- Gort Mhic Shiurdáin, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Módhráin
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- (continued from previous page)is the first spit you spit up in the morning. The cure for a bile is dry starch.
- When a child has the chin cough the best cure is to get a ferrets leavings. Long ago when a child had the chin cough that child would go out and the first man with a white horse he would meet he would ask a cure of him. They usually gave three difficult medicines to take. Any person that had the yellow jaundice they usually boil rusty irons and drank the juice. A child that never saw his father is supposed to have a cure for a sore mouth. The child would only(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Flannery
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ard Móráin, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Informant
- James Flannery
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ard Móráin, Co. Mhaigh Eo
