School: Caisleán hAicéid
- Location:
- Castlehacket, Co. Galway
- Teacher: S. Ó Floinn
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- Plasters made from certain herbs and the diseases they cure.All the old men in the town of Headford, Co. Galway were able to make a cure for fairy illness. They made it from an herb called Buachaill an tighe. It grows on the side of an old house. These old men used to pull it and boil it in an oven. They then used to mix it with a pint of new milk. The person who was ill had to take it in that way. This plaster-cure is sometimes used for the pox.
- Collector
- Eddie Kearns
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Pollnahallia, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Tim Kearns
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Caltragh, Co. Galway