School: Gortlitreach (roll number 15960)
- Location:
- Gortletteragh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Cionnaith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0220, Page 116
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- You get a small piece of bortree and take out the heart. Then you put in papers into the middle of it. You leave a piece unstuffed to blow into it then you have it made. When you blow into it the papers will shoot out of it.
- There is an old well in the graveyard. Its a big stone with a hole in it. If you leave some relic beside it you will get the cure of warts. You have to go either on Monday or Tuesday.There is a holy well down at Cars(?). If you go(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Betty Higgins
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
