School: Kildraught (2)
- Location:
- Celbridge, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: E. Ní Armhultaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Barracks. The present coal-house was the Bakery for the same (W.Abel Celbridge)
- 11. Sheep - Make a cushion of dried "Lady's-bedpillow" (yellow flower -faint smell (Hamilton, Celbridge)
12. Pimples - drink parsley tea (ditto) - Informant
- Hamilton
- Address
- Celbridge, Co. Kildare
- 13. Ivy leaves boiled in water take stains from navy blue clothes (Mr Murtagh, Newcastle)
- Informant
- Mr Murtagh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Newcastle, Co. Dublin
- 14. Rub petrol on stains (Ditto Mr Flood.)
- Informant
- Mr Flood
- Gender
- Male
- 15. In the west people say "Its boiling rain" meaning rain is threatening. (A.F. Hamilton. Celbridge heard in Co Sligo 15 years ago)
- Informant
- A. J. Hamilton
- Address
- Celbridge, Co. Kildare
- "Possit" a cure for colds made with butter-milk and oaten meal. (Miss Hollingsworth, Celbridge, heard from her Grandmother in Co Wicklow)
- Informant
- Miss Hollingsworth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Celbridge, Co. Kildare
- 17. When you find a bruise on your arm that you don't remember getting. It is called a dead man's pinch.(Miss Evans, Leixlip, heard 50 years ago)
- Informant
- Miss Evans
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leixlip, Co. Kildare
