milk in a bottle, and the cake in his pocket; and he said they'd ate it by degrees on the way. If he ate it al together 'twould kill him. The people used pluck nettles and ate them that time.The nettles used kill 'em too in the end.

Kilkenny - "Cats". Queen's Co - "(hwig) cuid mo chroidhe's"
Wexford: "Yellow Bellies". The Waxford Yalla Bellies" (from dress of the Yeoman in '98 period, perhaps.
Acorns are believed to cause "black quarter" in cattle.
Fuírán is the Carlow name for wild hemlock. An buachall á (buidhe) is called the "buailleán (buidhe). "Praiseac" universal name for chorlock. Common bog orchid is known as magairlín meadhrach. Quitch grass > "skutch"
Earc luachra is known as "the dark luacar" (double article "the th'" or does the "d" = t after article in Irish.
An t-earc luachra: (1) He is so thin, you'd think there was and 'ark lúker' in him" (Heard same in Ring) (2) "Dont lie in the grass or the "dark l ' will creep down your neck and have - young ones in your stomach (3) If you cut a dark lu- into any number of parts, they will all join together again (4)the dark lúker was a very big animal before St Patrick's time. He reduced & said: "You will be no bigger than a man's thumb".
Onions: (1) if applied raw are good for falling hair on head (2) used to dress the wound after sting of "waps" or bee. Bruised dock-leaves used to alleviate pain of hand, etc. stung by nettles. The stingless nettle is the "blind nettle".
The cat did not eat the year yet (cat, singular)
Pl in Ring = beidh lá eile ag an bPaorach.

I have a little sister. She lives in the ditch and if you got her she gives you the itch?- A nettle.

"Some say I'm foolish & some say I'm wise
To be fond of women I think it no crime
For the son of David had ten hundred wives
And his wisdom was highly recorded
But now he is laid on his back among nettles & stones,
Agus fágfaidh mé tú mar atá sé.N.B
M. Q. and others here in Cappawhite parish say tá and atá 20-30 years the old speakers from the hills or mountains used thá and athá. All possible influence of Gaelic Legue naturally excluded from these notes.(P.M.D.)

"Some of the leading men escaped by hiding in the nettles", continued Mrs Renehan.
[This is borne out by Clarke, supra]
"How did Sarsfield get back to Limerick?"
"I always heard it say that he went back by Portumna"
"Was Ned o'the Hill with him that day?"
"Maybe, a ghrádh; be I never heard it say but I always heard he refused to go foreign with Sarsfield and that he returned to these parts after he was with the Raparees.
Do you know anything else about Galp Hogan?
No, except that he was a good man and a great friend of the poor. They say that Hogans of Lacka(1) are the same Hogans and by the same token anytime Paddy or Billy gets the smell of a cork, they'll 'wheel' for him [I heard them 'wheeling' for him dozens of times myself P.M.D]
Oh yes there was a great monastery in Toem long ago but when Cromwell was coming the priests had all their vestments and the holy vessels in a well and covered it in. Tobar na mBan óg the well was called. [We have dug up an altar-stone quite recently and excavations are in progress P.M.D.](1) Lacka, Doon

Sore neck -
1. apply roasted salt
2. roasted potatoes
3. Tie stocking round neck
Gumboil- apply roasted salt in stocking
Toothache -
1. Go 7 times around stack of oats with out thinking of it.
2. Go 3 times around clang of turf without thinking of it.
3. Fill mouth with turpintine as hot as one can bear it & hold as long as possible.
Heartburn-
1. Take breadsoda in water
2. Chew tops of green furze & swallow same
3. Boiled nettles
Backache -
1. Apply Lampoil
2. Turpentine
3. Black pitch
4. Iron with hot clothes iron
Cold. Drink asses milk

I am welcome at once to come into the room
Where the boys are all drinking the porter
Fágfaidh mé tú mar a tá séBut now for the future I mean to be wise
I'll send for those women who acted so kind
I'll marry them all tomorrow, bym-by
If the clergy will agree to the bargain
Fágfaidh mé tú mar tá séHe had 700 wives and his wisdom was highly recorded
But now he's laid on his back among nettles and stones
Agus fágaidh mé tú mar tá séSee page 55
Croker: "I doubt it", says Croker.Old Croker lived in ------------- down near Limerick City. He was dying this time and he kept saying ---------------- (a very nasty word). All they could do they could get him to stop until a woman said she would make stop using that word------------------
When the minister came to him he said
You are going to a far better place than
"I doubt it" says Croker
[I heard the latter part of this story all my life in Co Carlow: Hence the nath: " 'I doubt it' says Croker"]