School: Béal Átha Feorainne (C.) (roll number 15653)
- Location:
- Ballyforan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Áine Bean Uí Chuillin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0271C, Page 18_005
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- (continued from previous page)butter and put on the wound. Boils were cured by bathing them with salt and buttermilk. A sty on the eye was cured by gooseberry thorns which were pointed to the sty every Monday and Thursday. The Sign of the Cross was made while pointing them.
Lyum boils were cured by warming a raisin and placing it to the lyum - boils until they ripen and burst.
Yellow - jaundice was cured by going to the well in Ballinlass in Mattie Kean field called the "Yellow Well" on three successive mornings before sunrise and bathing in it.
Bridget Healy
Breeher,
Ballyforan(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Healy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Creeharmore, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mr John Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Creeharmore, Co. Roscommon
