School: Ballyboghill
- Location:
- Baile Bachaille, Co. Bhaile Átha Cliath
- Teacher: P.J. Connolly
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- (continued from previous page)yourself with it and it is to come off. A cure for the whopping-cough you go to a woman married to a man of the same name and get a piece of bread which she baked and eat it. This is supposed to cure it.To cure a felon you get a herb called browsworth and boil it with celery in water. When it is boiled the person with the felon drinks the juice. This is supposed to cure it.If you have a sore eye you rub a wedding ring over it and it is supposed to get better. If you get a sting of a nettle rub a mint-leaf on it and it is supposed to get better.
- Collector
- Nan Mahon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Ghráinseach, Co. Bhaile Átha Cliath
- Informant
- Mrs Mahon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- An Ghráinseach, Co. Bhaile Átha Cliath