School: Ballybay (C.) (roll number 1345)
- Location:
- Cornaseer, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhghaill
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- (continued from previous page)on your head and be led down to a mearing stream to drink 3 sips of water from the stream.
Cure for Foul Mouth. A child that never saw its father has to blow into your mouth three times.
Cure for sore Leg, or any Sores hard to begot rid off. Grate raw potatoes mix with fresh buttermilk and put a poultice (cold) on sore.
- 1. Oaten bread, Made with oaten meal and water and pinch of salt and baked standing up.2. Oaten Potato cake, made oatmeal bruised potatoes a pinch of salt and bake them on grid - iron.3. Boxty bread, grated potatoes and flour
- Collector
- Mrs Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
