School: Ballinagh (C.)
- Location:
- Bellananagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Ní Chonchobhair
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- (continued from previous page)by pointing one each day to the eye until the nine are all used.Toothache is cured by getting a nail from a blacksmith and driving it into a tree.Worms can be cured by taking anything the seventh son of a family tells you.Ankle sprain is cured by Mr Morgan. It is cured by saying some prayer, and by rubbing his hand across it.Thrush of a young baby is cured by Mrs Gaynor. The sick person gives her a cup of meal. She covers the cup with her hands, and says a prayer over it, and the cup reduces until it is only about half full. She makes a cake out of the remainder and they have to eat it.Chil-blains can be cured by(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Sheridan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Gaffney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Drumlion, Co. Cavan