School: Ballyhurst, Tipperary (roll number 4562)
- Location:
- Ballyhusty, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Stás, Bean Uí Fhloinn
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- It is said that if you hung a band on a lock of the door on St. Bridget's night and you had a pain in your head after and to tie the band around your head it would cure it. If you had a stye in your eye and if you made the sign of the cross with a gold ring on your eye it would cure it. Loaf bread and hot milk is used for curing whitlows. Goose grease is used for curing corns. To creep out between an animals legs it would cure a pain in the back. It is said that if you tied a holy medal round your neck in the night it would stop you from talking through your sleep.
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- Collector
- Bridget Glasheen
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Ballyhusty, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr James Glasheen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyhusty, Co. Tipperary