School: Castlegannon, Mullinavat (roll number 13028)
- Location:
- Castlegannon, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Seán Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0848, Page 270
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- (continued from previous page)It should be boiled and rubbed to the sore.
The root of the dock-leaf and fresh butter is used for curing itch. You mix the dock-leaf and the fresh butter together and rub them to the itch.
- The old people had a strange way of sowing seed. When they wanted to sow whitethorn they would plait a sugán and in every plait they would put a seed Then they would turn a sod on the top of the ditch and lay down the sugan in the hollow and turn down the sod, and after a while would grow up straight.
- What is it that has four legs in the morning, two at noon and three at night -
Answer. A Christian.Which letter in the Alphabet is the cleanest -
Answer. The letter H. Because it is in the middle of washing.What country is in the house -
Answer - China.A pig behind two pig a pig before two pig a pig in the middle between two pig. How man pigs is that -
Answer Three (nine) pigs.If a snail went up a pole twelve feet long(continues on next page)
