School: Scoil na mBráthar, Cathair na Mart
- Location:
- Westport, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: An Br. C. J. Ó Haoláin
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- Diseases in Animals
Cattle. Dry Mourne (murrain) and Red WaterRed Water is taken from a cold in the kidney and in 9 cases out of 10 it finishes up in dry mourne (murran) The quickest cure for it is a cup of fine salt dissolved in a cup of buttermilk. Cattle with diarrhoea- boil roots of briars and give them juiceSheepWorm in the tail- split tail and mix gun powder and garlic and put in splitBuying a horse
1 white foot buy him
2 white feet buy him
3 white feet look well about him
4 white feet be sure and go without himNote taken from an article on Hedge Schools
Co. Mayo. Parish of Aughagower, townland of Mause. Patrick Tooby had no fixed income, pupils required to pay 1d per week but rarely pay it. School, a miserable cabin.
- Co. Mayo. Parish of Aghagower town land of Maase, Patrick Toohy had no fixed income, pupils required to pay 1 shilling and sixpence per week but rarely pay it. School, a miserable cabin.
