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   “There was a man in Belclare one time and he was a shoemaker . . .”

   

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   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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2. Local Cure for a Cold

   

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   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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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)
            1. medicine for human sicknesses
               1. colds (~62)
   2. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
         1. Cromwell (~315)
   3. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Peter Coyne

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Beagh Beg, Co. Galway