School: Ballinamore (B.) (roll number 2820)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Heslin

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- A cure for a pain in the ear. Get a jug of boiling water and hold your ear over it, and it will ease the pain.
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- Michael Seery
- Gender
- Male
- If you have a swollen foot go to the person who makes the cure, and bring a piece of butter without salt. The person says certain prayers, and gives the butter back to you. Then you rub the butter into the swollen part of and keep saying "Glory be to the father, and to the son, and to the holy ghost" till the butter is gone and the swelling will soon reduce.