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School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)

Location:
Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
P. Ó Droighneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0725, Page 063

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  1. Local Heroes

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    Tom Carty would carry a half hundred weight with his teeth for a hundred yards or more before he got his teeth out.
    There was a race at Kilrush road and back the Deloin road. It was nearly always won by a man named Gillick.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
      2. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    3. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Mc Mahon
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Tom Carty
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath

  2. Local Marriage Customs

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    There is no custome among the people of getting married at any special time of the year. People who get married in lent are said to be unlucky till the end of their lives.
    Wednesday is the luckiest day to get married. Everey other day is said to be unlucky.
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  3. Local Cures

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    Chilblains
    When goats milk and red soap are boiled together they make ointment for Chilblains.

    Whooping Cough
    When a ferret has finished drinking milk the remainder of the milk is good for the Whooping
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