School: Baile an Bhile (B.) (roll number 12195)
- Location:
- Ballinvilla Demesne, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: John F. Higgins
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- (continued from previous page)were put out of place they were lifted back again by a man who was paid to do so. The lifting of the person's ribs was called a "clayheen". The seventh son of a family had a cure for sore eyes.
- Whooping cough: If a person met a man with a white horse whatever cure he would give it would cure the whooping cough.
Ringworm: If a person caught 26 worms, hung 12 of them on a bush and let the rest free. While the worms that were hung on the bush were dying the ringworm was going.
Headaches were cured by smoking a pipe of tea of drinking a strong cup of tea.
Warts were cured by water that was resting on a rock.
If the person was looking for the water it would not cure him.
Sore eyes were cured by washing them in cold tea.
A boy that never saw his father had a cure for sore eyes. He had to blow his breath three times into the(continues on next page) - Collector
- James Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinvilla Demesne, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Anthony Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinvilla Demesne, Co. Mayo
