School: Cluain Fhada (roll number 15091)

Location:
Cloonfad More, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Eibhlín Ní Thighearnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0249, Page 121

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    candles burned beside a corpse, if applied to the chest, are supposed to cure a cold. Long ago people used to put castor-oil on brown paper and put it on their chests to cure a cold.
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  2. Travelling folk are still very numerous and when they come to the district they call to my home. They have been doing so for a good many years and the best known of them are generally welcome. These people are very poor and some of them travel barefooted, even in Winter some of them are to be seen in their
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ellen Conolly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Toomore, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Teresa Conolly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Toomore, Co. Roscommon