School: Wilkinstown (roll number 1917)
- Location:
- Baile Uilcín, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Máire Ní Failcheallaigh
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- XML “Homemade Ointment - An Old Cure for Piles and Pimples”
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- Miss Bridget Flood
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 35
- Occupation
- Domestic worker
- Address
- Baile Uilcín, Co. na Mí
- Informant
- Mrs Thomas Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 52
- Address
- Baile an Ghearlánaigh, Co. na Mí
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“The skin of a raw potato was known as a cure for a burn.”
1. The skin of a raw potato was known as a cure for a burn.
2. The water that potatoes were boiled in was a cure for a black eye.
3. The juice of an ash stick was a cure for an abscess in the ear.
4. Chewing the skin of a young ash tree was supposed to cure heart-burn.
