School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)
- Location:
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál de Búrca
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- (continued from previous page)Wildfire.
To write a person's own name with a pen and ink on a wildfire is said to cure it.
- If you have the whooping cough and if you meet a man riding on a white horse ask him for a cure and whatever cure he gives you will cure you
If a cow swallows a deirb and if you could catch three deirbs alive and put them in a cloth beside the fire until(continues on next page) - Collector
- Paddy Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Tomás Ó Ceallaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
