School: Derryvoney
- Location:
- Doire Mhóna, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Mary Ní Néill
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- (continued from previous page)33 What is beauty to comfort.
34. A shut mouth makes a wise head.
35. Worse luck the better again.
36. If the cap does not fit dont wear it. - In ancient Ireland the people had no doctors, and were obliged to cure themselves. They had many different cures in those days compared to ours nowadays.
When the people had a cough they went to a man who had the cure he brought them to three different fields one where he got tall green flowers(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kathleen Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doire Mhóna, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- Mrs Owen Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doire Mhóna, Co. an Chabháin