School: Ballyuskill (B.), Ballyragget

Location:
Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
F. Mac Cárthaigh
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  1. The cure for a pain in the ear is to get wadan dipped in Whiskey and pressed to the ear, the cure for sore eyes is loaf bread and goat's milk.
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  2. If you had chin blains go into a house that you were never in before take off your boots and stockings and rub your feet against. If you had a cold to boil the herbs and the Juice you would get to drink it.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Fogarty
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Earlsgarden, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mrs Fogarty
    Address
    Earlsgarden, Co. Kilkenny
  3. Long ago the children to enjoy themselves by making tops or by getting a big turnip pare the skin off it put eyes in it and a lighting candle beside it standing on a wall and it would frighten the people at ___
    The also used to make skittles some times the would catch birds with a riddle they
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