School: Na Tearmoinn (B.) (roll number 8931)
- Location:
- An Tearmann Thoir, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cathaláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0403, Page 399
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- (continued from previous page)For a pain in your ear was olive oil.
They used warm bran for a sore throat.
And they used use ferrets leavings for a Chin Cough.
- In the olden times there was only very little sickness. There was no such things as doctors or Nurses but handy men and women. The people in the olden times made up their own medecene. My father or mother do not know what cures were made to cure people in olden times or I never heard of any of them.
- There is a man living in Dooncaha named Michael Hanrahan and he is a very strong man. He carried two twenty st bags of mealabout 15 yds on his two hips. He put a rolling stone in to a horses cart(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Culhane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Tearmann Thiar, Co. Chiarraí
- Informant
- Mrs Lizzie Culhane
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- An Tearmann Thiar, Co. Chiarraí
