School: Ballyheaffy (B.), Baile Dubh (roll number 10387)
- Location:
- Ballyeafy, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0634, Page 101
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- (continued from previous page)until the blood would come and then they would mix paraffin oil and butter and rub it on the ring-worm and it would cure it
Cure for Cuts
The cure people used to have for cuts is buachallans broken up with a hammer and made into a plaster and is used a great deal at the present time
Obtained from Michael Brunnock (49 years)
Doon
Aragleen
Kilworth
Co. Cork
- Cure for Whooping Cough
This is the cure for the whooping cough in the Araglen district. The person that would be sick should walk along the road until he or she meets a man with a white horse and ask him for a cure for the(continues on next page)
