School: Breac-chluain (B.) (roll number 13389)

Location:
Brackloon, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Casaide
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  1. 1. A dock-leaf is a cure for a burn of a nettle.
    2. A white lily root is a cure for lumps and boils.
    3. Dandelions are good to boil for pigs and hens.
    4. Garlic and tobacco mixed together is a cure for a worm in a calf's tail.
    5. Buachalláins would kill sheep.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. It was a custom long ago that "folpars" or straw - boys as they were called used to come to the wedding house. About forty years or so they used to come and one man leading them. This man would be called the Captain. They used to have straw hats and straw around their legs. The "folpars" used to have an overcoat turned inside out on them so that they would not be known. One man was always dressed in woman's clothes.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Martin Rush
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    45
    Address
    Magheraboy, Co. Mayo