School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)

Location:
Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mícheál de Búrca
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  1. Extracting of thorns.
    A foxe's tongue is very useful for extracting a thorn that is too short to be caught by any other article.
    A Sty.
    When a sty comes on a person's eye nine thorns are picked off a gooesberry bush and are pointed to the sty. This is done nine mornings in succession and on the last morning ten are picked and this tenth one
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brendan Mc Andrew
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    John Mc Andrew
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    68
    Address
    Ballycastle, Co. Mayo