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School: Inis Uí Dhrisceoil, An Sciobairín

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Inishodriscol, Co. Cork
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Donncha Ó Donnabháin
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  1. Old Substitute for Baby Toilet Powder

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    When I was a little girl Baby Toilet Powder or Fullers' Earth was unknown on this Island, but I saw my own mother and the other old women using the following as baby-powder.
    They used to strike the old moth-eaten beams and rafters of the outhouses and the dry powder thus obtained used to be shaken on the babies after being washed, in the same manner as Baby Toilet Powder is used today. The old women had a very high opinion of the powder thus obtained, and held that it had wonderful healing properties.
    I got this from:
    Mrs Kate Burke (65years)
    Hare Island Middle,
    Church Cross,
    Skibbereen,
    Co. Cork.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Kate Burke
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    65
    Address
    Inishodriscol, Co. Cork