School: Killesk
- Location:
- Coill Eisce, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Margt. Sutton
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- A cure for the chin-cough is if you happened to find a hairy-molly and put her in a cloth and tie it around the persons neck with the ointment and accordingly as the insect decays away the chin-cough will go away too.
If you get bread from the children of whose parents are of the same name it is supposed to cure the chin-cough too.
If you boil black-button leafs, and drink the water it is a cure for boils. The roots of comfrey boiled or scraped and made into a paste is a cure for a sprain.
Spunk leafs are good for a severe cut. If you boil water and put a corner of a towel into it and put it as hot as you could bear it on the back of your neck it will cure a head-ache.
- Long ago when people wanted a cure for the whooping cough they put the person in between, an asses legs three times and making the sign of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nano Hart
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Hart
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tigh an Chnoic, Co. Loch Garman
