School: Castlegrove (roll number 15475)
- Location:
- Castlegrove East, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0046
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - One day as a man was lying on hay a lizard jumped into his mouth. After some time he sent for the doctor, but the doctor could do nothing for him, he could not even tell him what was wrong with him. One day a man came along and told him what was wrong with him. The man asked for a cure. The man he met told him to eat salty herrings and after that to put his head over a basin of fresh milk. He did this and after half an hour five lizards were in the basin.
In Caher - evagh people see a stone moving out of a garden and down along the road to a well and is brought back again. People see it moving and hears chains rattling but see no horse. Old people say(continues on next page)
