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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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0725, Page 063

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  1. 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)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
      2. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    Language
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    Collector
    Michael Mc Mahon
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Tom Carty
    Gender
    Male
  3. 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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