School: Baile an Bhile (C.) (roll number 15488)
- Location:
- Ballinvilla Demesne, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bríd Nic Giollachlaoin
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- (continued from previous page)or feet they would render lard and rub it hard on the spot.
Warts were very common among the people and they usually put a raw potato on it and it would disappear, washing soda would cure warts also.
The way they cured toothache was to put a frog in their mouths and it would go, sometimes they would put a clove in the tooth.
The seventh daughter had a cure for sore eyes, when she would leave her hand on them they(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mona Hunt
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Hunt
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Keebagh, Co. Mayo