School: Kildavin, Ferns
- Location:
- Cill Damháin, Co. Cheatharlach
- Teacher: Tadhg de Brí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0911, Page 207
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- (continued from previous page)they give the ass a piece of bread to eat and the crumbs that fall from the piece of bread they get and boil in milk and give the milk to the person to drink.
- It was locally believed by the people around here that a cure for whooping cough was to tie a caterpillar in a cloth and wrap it round the throat of the person who had the whooping couigh.
Another cure for that sickness was to boil in water the hair of a person who never saw his father and drink it.
But such a person is hard to be found and so it is very seldom that this cure was used. - Collector
- Maggie Kavanagh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Kavanagh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- An Corrán Mór, Co. Cheatharlach
