School: Baile an Daingin (C.) (roll number 4828)
- Location:
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire de Staic
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- The cure the people used have long ago for a stone - bruise was to boil the leaves of a bohulaun in oatmeal and put it to the bruise to draw it. For a sore mouth they used to mix soda and buttermilk and rub it on the sore. For a sty on the eye they used get a thorn of a gooseberry bush and stab it with the thorn.
- If you had warts on your eyes stealing a bit of meat was a cure but to bury it. "Buacaill an tighe" is a cure for sore eyes. Garlic is a cure for a rash. It is also good for a horse if he had a pain. An old cure for(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Slattery
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Keenan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 30
- Address
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo