School: Birr (St. Brendan's)
- Location:
- Biorra, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teachers: S. Ó Conchobhair R. Ó Huigín
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- (continued from previous page)Carrig
Birr
- (2) Get ashes and rub it in the ringworm and say a prayer and the ringworm will go.D. Hoctor from William King, Carrig, Birr.
- (3) The cure is to get a wooden egg-cup, pour the blood of a goose into it and cover the top of the egg-cup with muslin and place it on the ringworm and in a day the ringworm will be gone.J. Fox from John Callaghan, The Mall, Thurles.
- BlacklegWhen a cow has blackleg put a piece of garlic into the cow's ear and the disease is cured.T Talbot from T Talbot, Riverside, Birr.
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- T. Talbot
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- T. Talbot
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- Address
- Biorra, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- (2) If there is Blackleg on a farm and an animal dies from it, cut off one of the hind legs and hang it in the chimney and as the flesh is melting the Blackleg is going out of the land.C Guinan from M O'Donnell, Curravarna, Birr.
