School: Baile Dubh, (C.) (roll number 15541)
- Location:
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Dhriaghail
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- (continued from previous page)day he was completely cured.
Biddy Whelan is a girl of seventeen years of age. She lives in Barnavalla and was born a short time after her fathers death.
- There was a woman in my parish by the name of Nora Coffey who could cure certain diseases. She used to gather herbs out of the mountain and boil them and then give them to sick people to drink and it is said that it cured them, and people used to come from all parts of the counties around Waterford to get cured because there were no doctors there at that time.
There is a boy named Michael Cashel in our parish. He suffered very much from toothaches and he was told to put(continues on next page) - Collector
- Lizzie Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mr James Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
