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School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)

Location:
Baile Shéamais, Co. Liatroma
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 432

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    Put the child with the chin-cough out under an ass foal 3 times. Then the mother of the child must feed the mother of the donkey with oatmeal out of her apron. Whatever meal is left over, 3 cakes are made out of it for the child to eat. Then they milked the donkey again.
    The yellow skin inside a hen's gizzard - boiled - makes a drink - which is a sure cure for a headache.
    A turnip leaf put to a toothache will cure it.
    Make a promise to abstain from any thing you are fond of, and you will get better, if you are sick.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
        1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Teresa Gilbane
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Thomas Gilbane
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    An Mhionchoill, Co. Liatroma