School: Rooskey (roll number 4800)
- Location:
- Rúscaigh, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Luke Caslin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0257, Page 046
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My grandmother Mrs Teresa Farrell Whitehall, Termonbarry told me a cure for the chincough. First of all she said get a hungry cat and when the child would vomit let the cat eat the vomit, and she would take the chincough, and the child would get better.
Another cure for the whooping cough is to meet a man driving a pieball horse, and ask him for a cure for the whooping cough. Any cure he gives no matter how simple is supposed to give relief.
It is said that anyone who licks a man-keeper is supposed to have a cure for a burn. Anyone who has a wart on their hand can be cured by rubbing a snail of it then put the snail up on a bush to wither away too.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Noonan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonaufill, Co. Ros Comáin
