School: Baile Mhic Ealgóid (2)
- Location:
- Ballymacelligott, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Sarah Blennerhassett
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- (continued from previous page)the poison. The soap and sugar should be put in a plate. The sugar should be pushed together and the bit of soap down on it. Then it should be pressed with a knife until it is melted and mixed.
Other cures were soda applied to a burn and bandaged to rub a dock-leaf to a nettle burn, to pour cold water in a strain on a hand or foot, and wax is able to cure windscars.- Collector
- Evelyn Hoffman
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymacelligott, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs William Hoffman
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- Over 70