School: Graughlough
- Location:
- Greaghclogh, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Mrs Wade
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- (continued from previous page)the pig house saying; Leckna, leckna, leckna, If a person had a strained foot or arm they would go to a stream that lay between two townlands and bathe the strained part in the running stream and they were cured.
- In olden times shops were not near so plentiful as now-a-days, for people did not use tea or sugar or such food as they do now. They lived on rough food such as potatoes or oat meal. Some shop-keepers sell no goods on Sunday, and others do after Mass time. This practice is still carried on in shop business
There is no fair business carried on, on Sundays such as with cattle sheep or horses. Labour was often given to shopkeepers for goods. Some(continues on next page) - Collector
- Billy Kincaid
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Seeharan, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- Mrs T. Cochrane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Greaghclogh, Co. an Chabháin
