School: Baile an Daingin (C.) (roll number 4828)
- Location:
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire de Staic
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- (continued from previous page)for chest-colds. A piece of the bark of an elm-tree boiled and the juice preserved is a very good bathe for a sore. Stirabout is very good for drawing water from sores.
- If you had a lump on your foot or hand hot whiskey would break it. Wild ivy-leaves were used for drawing. People used draw a stroke round a sore with a gold ring to prevent it from spreading A drink of butter milk after making a churning before taking out the butter is good for a sick person as it is believed there is a cure in the milk then but not after the butter is taken out. Hog's lard mixed with sulphur was good for curing cow-pock or chicken-pock.
- Collector
- Attracta Rhattigan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Coyne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 90
- Address
- Carrownurlaur, Co. Galway