School: Behymore
- Location:
- Behy More, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0162, Page 059
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- (continued from previous page)put it on the cut.
- A cold or sore throat is often cured by hot buttermilk and sugar. The people in former times used to get for a stone bruise sugar and soap and mix it up and warm it and then put it on the stone-bruise that is the way they used to cure anyone that would have a stone-bruise.
- Collector
- Maura Fuery
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mullauns, Co. Mayo
- If you had the rose you would have to go to the person who had the cure and they would give you a bit of butter to rub to it and it would get better.
- Collector
- May Neary
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corimla South, Co. Mayo
- There is another cure for the chin cough that is, get the person that has the cough and put him across an asse's back three times. Then(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bunree, Co. Mayo
