School: Ballyuskill (B.), Ballyragget
- Location:
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: F. Mac Cárthaigh
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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(continues on next page) - Collector
- James Fogarty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Earlsgarden, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Thomas Fogarty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Earlsgarden, Co. Kilkenny
