School: Ballyboghill
- Location:
- Ballyboghil, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: P.J. Connolly
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- (continued from previous page)round your neck. While the maggot is dying the cough will be getting better.
Here is another cure for corns get a butter-dalk weed and put it round the corn and it will soon go away.
There is a man living in Walshestown, Lusk, Co. Dublin and he can cure ereciplse. He blesses cream and puts it on where the ereciplse is and after a while it will be better. What is strange about him is he knows whether it is ereciplse or not.
Here is a cure for a sting of a nettle. Get a butter-dalk weed and put it on the sting and it will go away.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Janie Delaney
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- Female
- Address
- Bettyville, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Dan Delaney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bettyville, Co. Dublin
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- Mrs Delaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bettyville, Co. Dublin
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- Peter Gilsenan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Broomfield, Co. Dublin
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- Tom Doyle
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- Male
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Labourer
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- Bettyville, Co. Dublin
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- Mrs Coleman
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- Unknown
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- Female
- Address
- Gallanstown, Co. Dublin