School: Ballyvaldon (roll number 10792)
- Location:
- Ballyvaldon, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0885, Page 255
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ballyvaldon
- XML Page 255
- XML “Local Cures”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)said Stephens and the man rose + drew a fork from the lame girl + she was cured.
the same Stephens was the means of bringing back "profit" a certain farm
He told the farmer tp physic his cows with a medicine he gave him and not to give anything on loan that day.
A man came for the loan of a scythe, was refused. But he said "You sold your new milch cow in May and that is the cause of your trouble. The profit came back through using the medicine.
This is another StoryA journey man tailor was at work in a farmer's house. On May-day morn a woman came in for milk with the sole purpose of taking the profit (no milk was given on May day). There was a churn being made at this time. The tailor noticed the woman going off with a red turf cadhrán
He immediately thrust a "coulter" into the fire + then under the churn + the cadrán went out immediately. The woman made 3 attempts always with the same result.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Miss Mary Ann O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Ballyvoodock, Co. Wexford
