School: Tulach Bán (roll number 11322)
- Location:
- Tullywana, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Gormfhlaith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0223, Page 156
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- (continued from previous page)If the cuckoo comes during the first days of April people say it will be a bad summer.
- The old people say that a lot of people go to Saint Brigids well at Kildare so that any pains that they have may be cured. If people who are not looking for such a stone with a pool of water on it, dip the finger that has the wart on it in the water the wart will be cured. The people say that another cure it so spit on the wart for nine mornings after each other fasting and that it would be cured.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Matilda Mohan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Tom Cull
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 79
