School: Shinrone (B.)
- Location:
- Shinrone, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: William Mac Mahon
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- (continued from previous page)He could get two half hundred weights and tie them together and get two more and do the same with them. Then he could get two of them in each hand and beat them together over his head. He was always spoken of as the strongest man in Shinrone.
- 1. When a funeral is passing hide behind a wall and throw a handful of clay after the hearse.
2. Steal a piece of fat bacon and rub the bacon on the warts. Take out the bacon and hide it in a hole.
3. Get nine pieces of stew and rub them on the warts. Then tie the nine pieces of stew up in a parcel and drop them at a cross secretly.
4. Get a potato and cut it in two halves, rub them on the warts. Then bury them(continues on next page)
