School: Baile Stiabhna, Askeaton (roll number 7900)

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1. The Old Graveyard (continued)

   

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   and Corbett of Ballynorth and Fitzgerald of Ballyengland. The first, fifth, and sixth mentioned have headstones. The unbaptized children were buried with the rest of the family. Different families are buried in other graveyards outside the parish. Pina Holland Gurthnagranaher From John Holland, aged 60, Moig

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2. Local Cures

   

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   LOCAL CURES

   There are many practised in this parish.

   To cure warts if the ailing person gets water in the hollow of a stone he is to rub the water to the warts, and they will vanish as the water evaporates. The patient is to get a thorn and rub it to the wart, then bury it and as the thorn decays the wart disappears. Steal a piece of fat meat and rub it to the wart, then bury the meat, and the wart vanishes.

   To cure corns the person is to walk in the dew for nine consecutive mornings and then the corn will vanish.

   Rheumatism

   Rheumatism is cured by boiling yarrow in cows milk and drinking it. An unplucked crane

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