School: Billis
- Location:
- Billis, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: R. Binéid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1006, Page 326
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- (continued from previous page)churn a few minutes, then you could light your pipe, and go away, because if you would not go she would think that you brought the butter with you.
Burn
(i) Rub soap on the burn.
(ii) Lick a mankeeper, and then lick the burn with your tongue.Sore eyes
Bathe the eyes in bog water.Blisters on horse
When horses have blisters on them people pare the bark off an oak tree and boil the bark, and rub the boiled bark on the horses breast.Stye of the eye
When people got styes on their eyes they used to throw a thorn across their shoulder, in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and the stye would disappear.
