School: Rathcarran (roll number 4370)
- Location:
- Ráth Chairn, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Chonnachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0697, Page 362
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- (continued from previous page)of this. They cut the potatoes in two and spread them on top of the manure. They use spades which they buy in the shop. The neighbours help each other when they are planting and digging the potatoes. The children pick the potatoes and then store them in pits for the Winter. The farmer tills and prepares the ground before sowing the potatoes.
- Warm salt cures a sore throat. A cure for a headache is to lie on the bed in a dark room. When people have a stye on their eye they point three gooseberry -(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Murray
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonymore, Co. Meath
