School: Cathair Loisgreáin (B)

Location:
Caherlustraun, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Pádhraic de Chlár
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    There was a man in Belclare one time and he was a shoemaker . . .

    There was a man in Belclare one time and he was a shoemaker. One day a man called to him and asked him to make a pair of boots. This he did and when the man asked him how much they were the shoemaker wrote something on a piece of paper and gave it to the man, who went away. Some years later the man came again and brought the shoemaker to the top of a hill and gave him as much land as he could see. This man (as per story) was Cromwell
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
        1. Cromwell (~315)
    3. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Roche
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Frank Bones
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Belclare, Co. Galway
  2. Get (I) 6 eggs
    (II) 6 lemons
    (III) 1 lb of brown sugar
    (IIII) 1/2 pint of rum
    Break the eggs and put into lemon juice shells included. Leave aside for 24 hours. Add rum and sugar and beat well. Put mixture into bottle
    Take a wine glass after meals
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