School: Loch an Toirc (roll number 9584)
- Location:
- Loughatorick South, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhuirgheasa
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- (continued from previous page)for a pain in your stomach also. If you get a norpluacher lick him and if you gets a burn you will never have a pain in it.
To cure a sting of a nettle it to get a dock leaf and rub the juice to the sting.
Goose grease is good for a cold to leave it on your chest going to bed at night.
The cure of a cold broke out on your face is to spat on a clay floor and rut it to it.
- Potatoes are grown on my farm. Some farmers sow an acre and so forth. They prepare the land with a horse and plough. They sow them in both ridges and drills. both plough and spade are used. A plough is used at drills and a spade at ridges. Wooden ploughs were used some years ago. The farmer gets two horses and a plough and ploughs the land.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Willie Hickey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Loughatorick North, Co. Galway
