School: Baile Uí Chróinín (roll number 10594)
- Location:
- Ballycroneen West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Chroitigh
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“A few days before Christmas 1865, the Ibis, a steamship was lost at Ballycroneen Bay, a little to eastward of Poerhead...”
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“Long ago if a person got a cut the first thing he did was to rub a grey plant called the bloodweed to it...”
Long ago if a person got a cut the first thing he did was to rub a grey plant called the bloodweed to it. Years ago a man named Patrick Quirk who lived near Churchtown chapel could cure widlfire by cutting his finger and letting a drop of blood fall on it. The blood from a black cat's tail could cure ringworm. If a person who never saw his mother blew his breath into the mouth of a child who had thrush it was instantly cured. If a person had a sore on any part of his body he put leeches up to it to suck up the congealed blood. (no title)
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- Patrick Hegarty
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Johanna Hegarty
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Ballinvoher, Co. Cork