School: Castletownconyers, Ráthluirc (roll number 14077)
- Location:
- Castletown, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Seán Ó Brosnacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0497, Page 366
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- (continued from previous page)head is to keep a hankerchief around it. A cure for a sore, is to rub ointment to it. There is a cure in paying a round at Lady's Well.
- A crib for catching birds is a home made toy. There are a lot of nice things made at the woodwork class at Mr. Vaughan's workhouse. Thee were presses, chairs, gates, and a hall stand, made there. Girls makes necklaces out of flowers.
- Some people do not like to start a thing on Monday. They do not think it lucky. One May eve, people shake holy water around their place. People like to have early potatoes set for the seventeenth of March. If a person dies, and is to be buried on Monday, the grave is reddened on Sundays. Some people think it not lucky to take horses out of a field on Monday if they were in it for a long time.
- There were not many poets around here. A poet name John Mac Donnell lived in Rathluirc. He is buried in Rathluirc. He wrote(continues on next page)
