School: Faithche (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Fahy More, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Cinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0087, Page 281
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- An Old Story
My father told me about a man that lived long ago named Con Cooney. this was a lazy man who hated to work. The other farmers decided a prize to be given to the one who would make Con work.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter O' Malley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinlough, Co. Mayo
- (continued from previous page)head-ache is to go to bed and to take a cup of strong tea and the head-ache will go. The cure for a sty on your eye is to get ten thorns of a goose-berry bush, and throw one away and point the other nine three times at the sty. The cure for a pain in your ear is to put hot olive oil into it.
