School: Log na nGall (roll number 15663)
- Location:
- Log na nGall, Co. Shligigh
- Teachers: Tomás Ó Hodhráin Bean Uí Hodhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 177
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- 1. Cure for mumps. A person whose mother and father were of the same name. The ailing person goes with him to the three nearing water led by the donkey's winkers. The person with the mumps take a drink of each water.2. Wildfire on lip. Rub your mothers' gold wedding ring on it. To cure a cough. Boil garlic with milk and drink it hot.To cure measles. Go to a woman who did not change her name when she got married. She is supposed to have the cure.To cure toothache. Chew tobacco and the pain will go away.To cure a wart. Rub a halfpenny across the wart hide it in a puddle in the road. Whoever gets the half-penny will also got the wart(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dominick Harte
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Machaire Mór, Co. Shligigh
- Collector
- Kathleen Devins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Caisle Geala, Co. Shligigh
- Collector
- Michael Commins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Tor Mór, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Brian Commins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Caisle Geala, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Denis Commins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Tor Mór, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Mrs Hennigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Machaire Mór, Co. Shligigh
